#rivers

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#build #even #over #politicians #promise

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#genre #like #literary #many #much

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low. ↗

— Parris Glendening

#depression #dry #low #our #rivers

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#rivers #time #imagination

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you. ↗

— Jo Deurbrouck

#adventure-stories #adventure-travel #rivers #love

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. ↗

— A. J. Foyt

#bad luck #cars #dad #daddy #drivers

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#cemeteries #dead #dead people #drivers #driving

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod? ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#could #dying #fish #rivers #seems

More and more, paddling the Yellowstone feels like that bedside visit, like we are attending to a friend in dire straits, a friend whom we have seen in the full bloom of health, but with whom, now, there is little to say and only our companionship to offer. ↗

— Alan S. Kesselheim

#nature #rivers #nature

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#different #different names #just #lakes #names