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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -- A. A. Milne
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers. -- Charles Kuralt
Rivers neede a spring. -- George Herbert
Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth -- Jamie Foxx
I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers. -- Isaac Mizrahi
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Never make the first move." - Loor (The Rivers of Zadaa) -- D. J. MacHale
Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity. -- Euginia Herlihy
Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go. -- Blaise Pascal
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. -- Blaise Pascal
Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs. -- Trent Reznor
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. -- Bronislaw Malinowski
Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story -- Norman Chad
Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was. -- Judy Gold
I'm sorry to go, but its alright. Rivers dry up; tides ebb; the sea goes on. -- Seanan McGuire
Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room. -- Jay Mohr
Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. -- Aldous Huxley
My feelings for you run very deep." - LoorNot deep enought, I guess." - Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa) -- D. J. MacHale
I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too. -- Amy Schumer
Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide. -- John Muir
Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer. -- William Butler Yeats
I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music. -- Kevin Eubanks
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. -- Izaak Walton
I have nothing snarky to say about Joan Rivers' appearance. We should all be that happy with how we look on camera, frankly. -- Julie Klausner
Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge. -- Dennis Miller
Rivers of tear drops, these sharp pains in my heart, if this was the way that you love, you never should have loved me -- Ashanti
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world. -- Leo Tolstoy
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
It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it. -- Tony Sunshine
A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers. -- Robert Jordan
As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans. -- Clint Walker
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically. -- Stephen Kinzer
Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness. -- Hildegard of Bingen
Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.] -- Blaise Pascal
You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart. -- Paris Hilton
As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant. -- Boy George
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. -- John Lubbock
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The Great Walk to Beijing was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer thrivers, including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians. -- Olivia Newton-John
I loved smart and fearless comedians like Joan Rivers and Don Rickles. When they started out, what they did wasn't always socially accepted, but they both had careers that lasted over 50 years. -- Roy Haylock
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray. -- Anne Bradstreet
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. -- Carl Clinton Van Doren
The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians. -- Olivia Newton-John
[Joan Rivers] is fantastic. AND SHE'S 80! There's no 80-year-old pitcher. If you're a running back and you're 28 they're like, "Oh, here he goes, turning the corner on his career, he's on the downswing..." -- Jay Mohr
When Joan Rivers walked through the curtain on 'The Tonight Show,' nobody in my house was allowed to utter a sound. Her gait was full of pep and purpose and her voice unmatched. -- Judy Gold
See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you. -- Megan McCafferty
I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers! -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die. -- Tina Fey
So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig. -- Chelsea Peretti
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. -- Andrew Dost
Nature "¦ is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them. -- Robert Hooke
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge. -- Jurnee Smollett
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers. -- Charles Kuralt
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States. -- Paul Goldberger
The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with its exquisite beauty, serenity, and raw nature. Costa Rica was the perfect place for developing such an important project. -- Perrey Reeves
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door -- James A. Michener
God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned. -- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others. -- Barry Humphries
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could. -- Tom Robbins
There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers. -- Joan Rivers
I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love -- Francine Rivers
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. -- Loren Eiseley
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. -- Norman Maclean
The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart. -- Shozo Tanaka
A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself. -- Laura Gilpin
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. -- Barry Lopez
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise. -- Robert Burns
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. -- e. e. cummings
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars. -- Edward Abbey
The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are. -- Lynn Culbreath Noel
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this. -- David R. Brower
I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers. -- Charles Kuralt
Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. -- W. H. Auden
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. -- Hal Boyle
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. -- A. A. Milne
The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land. -- Lynn Culbreath Noel
Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. -- Cyril Connolly
Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy. -- Joseph Rodman Drake
Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. -- Willy Ley
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away. -- Arthur Golden
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. -- Solomon
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. -- Nikita Khrushchev
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. -- Voltaire
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. -- Heraclitus
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. -- Chief Joseph
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. -- Dave Reichert
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. -- Jose Saramago
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. -- Henry Van Dyke
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. -- Leonardo da Vinci
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. -- George William Curtis
New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time. -- Bill Dedman
We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I like pine trees. I like cold rivers. -- Joseph Monninger
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher. -- Morihei Ueshiba
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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
I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most. -- Andrea Hirata
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. -- Radhanath Swami
In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. -- Bjorn Lomborg
Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many. -- Candice S. Miller
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. -- Saint Augustine
Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous. -- David Suzuki
I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control. -- Wendy Liebman
Deep rivers run quiet. -- Haruki Murakami
Our bodies are molded rivers. -- Novalis
Insanity makes the rivers flow. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The deepest rivers make least din. -- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do. -- Aristotle
Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers. -- Prince Philip
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. -- Langston Hughes
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying. -- Etel Adnan

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