#rivers

I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police. ↗

— John Pomfret

#california #county #covering #i #making

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers. ↗

— Peter Shumlin

#bigger #brooks #got #into #lot

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ↗

— Heraclitus

#ever #flowing #into #other #rivers

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#rivers #sea #self-interest #virtues

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#artist #color #create #creating #creation

I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers. ↗

— Dan Wheldon

#drivers #earlier #especially #experience #explained

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy ↗

— Philip Levine

#diamonds #rivers #stars #water #change

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#back #buy #car #carry #cash

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#birds #childhood #devon #everywhere #eyes

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam. ↗

— Myrtle Reed

#life-and-living #nature #river #rivers #life