Quotes by Rivers I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who were either going down a river in a strange world or would be in this one land where people acted really strange, and he'd have these interactions with them that were strange - he'd usually get run out of town or something. Then he'd end up in the next town over where the rules were totally different. And I love this stuff. Bela Fleck land rivers running THE HOT (AND SERIOUSLY COOL) ENERGY that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of FELA! feels as if it could stretch easily to the borders of Manhattan and then across a river or two. There should be dancing in the streets! Ben Brantley rivers character two Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not. Ben Jonson horse rivers wind The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you. Ben Okri fate destiny rivers You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone. Ben Okri destiny causes rivers In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry. Ben Okri hungry rivers world Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. Benjamin Disraeli mind rivers children When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. Benjamin Franklin rain rivers water What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief. Benjamin Franklin bridges rivers war In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top. Benjamin Franklin government swim rivers By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, There is no hurry. We shall get there some day. Benjamin Hoff rain rivers running I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan. Benjamin Netanyahu agreement rivers thinking The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart. Bernard of Clairvaux heart rivers men The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. Bertolt Brecht violent bed rivers The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done. Berton Braley best-job rivers jobs An individual human existence should be like a river Bertrand Russell individual should rivers In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. Bess Streeter Aldrich dream rivers book You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you. Beth Kephart my-love-for-you goes-on rivers Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed. Bette Midler flower heart rivers It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day. Betty Smith light rivers grieving «23456789101112»