River Quotes - page 26

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. (Emile Hirsch)
There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry. View quote
Eric Burdon
There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is. View quote
Edgar Winter
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? View quote
Frederick Carl Frieseke
I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River'. View quote
Gilberto Hernandez
What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places. View quote
Greg MacGillivray
I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one. View quote
Gary Allan
Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry. View quote
Jay Weatherill
Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid. View quote
Jim Sturgess
It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.' View quote
Jimmy Cliff
They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system. (John Anderson)
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. View quote
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. View quote
John Moody
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. View quote
John Moody
One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River. View quote
Jon Meacham
You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community. View quote
Jonathan Tisch
People are always like, 'Oh, 'Jurassic Park' is on...' or 'Oh, 'The River Wild' is on...' I actually haven't seen any of my movies in a long time. Being more self-aware now, and being an adult, I'm a little bit embarrassed to watch them. View quote
Joseph Mazzello
I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors. View quote
Joseph Monninger
What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river. View quote
Joseph Wambaugh
James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos. View quote
Kaley Cuoco
I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again. (Ken Salazar)
But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do. View quote
Kenneth Oppel
I used to waterski on the Niagara River. View quote
Kim Alexis
The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership. View quote
Kurt Bills
Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market. View quote
Leonard Boswell