Best running & rivers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.”

“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.”

Knows Years Made Happens Running Five Stage Fronts Happenings Rivers Dry Five Years Sweat Pouring Microphones

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.”

Ifs Looks Long Done Running Faces Stars Vision Sun Clear Grace Tears Rivers Desert Look Up Thank God Tombs Blinded

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.”

Art Real Running Half Art Is Rivers Stones Species Feminist Gender Tiny Cracks One Half Flawless Creeks Subjugation Feminist Art

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.”

Running Pain Together Fall Sides Accepting Rocks Lovers Bed Rivers Wide Hills Folly Halls Leap Valleys Splits Rapids Together Again

Book:Poems of Sidney Lanier

Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier

“After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.”

Kind Country Play Seems Running Faces Clear Land Rivers Stranger Rays Moonlight Grim Gleam Wilder Nightfall Moonbeams Plateaus

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.”

Firsts Sometimes Running School Lessons Rivers Crosses Seasons Bridges Up And Down Rainy Rainy Season

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.”

Looks Running Tree Rivers Ethiopia

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.”

Ifs Bigs Running School Waiting Walks Six Late Rivers Sticks Miles Farms Miles Away Gorges

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.”

Ifs World Ends Light Running Turns Streets Rivers West East Circles Commerce Traffic Leafs Broadway Manhattan Batteries

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.”

Way Doe Home Reality Running Courses Found Break Rocks Ready Ocean Bird Rivers Blessed Longing Coming Home Spheres Fulfilling Pledge Trekking Homesick

Book:Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

Source: Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard

“It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river.”

Firsts Running Grace Air Tree Sea Sweet Demand Spring Rivers Blue Fishes Boat Hills Ran Lakes Fishing Spokes Assertion Brooks Dummy

Book:Crocker's Hole: From

Source: Crocker's Hole: From

“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.”

Source: Advertisements for Myself

“In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water”

Thinking Mean I Can Two Running Fun Water Sea Fine Cold Thousand Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Insects Screening Running Water

Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.”

“But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.”

Should Stills Two Ends Bigs Running Universe Pieces Atheism Middle Rivers Towns Woods Planning Simile Illustration End Of Life Jargon Philosophic Extremity Homely

Author:Chapman Cohen

“Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!”

Men Matter States Happens Running Rivers Old Man Texas Rolling Rolling Along

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.”

Men Doe Soul Matter Running Water Known Clear Sweet Flower Wall Genius Pure Degrees Conscious Rivers Wilderness Be A Man Running Water

Book:The Stones of Venice...

Source: The Stones of Venice...

“The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?”

Source: Talking woman

“Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.”

People World Has Beens Two States Use Running Water United Half United States Majors Rivers Cents

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.”

Running Mother Water Born Rivers Rome Veins Naples

Author:Augusto De Luca

“Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.”

Light Running Humanity Rivers Eternity Exes

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.”

Knows Way Running Fall Sea Land Blessing Rivers Charity Pilots

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

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