Rivers Quotes – City of Quotes

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the ’90s has survived the boom and bust years.

Bill Dedman

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the ’90s has survived the boom and bust years.

Bill Dedman

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Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

Gloria Steinem

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

Gloria Steinem

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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.

Mitski

I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.

Mitski

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A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they’re next to.

Alan Stern

A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they’re next to.

Alan Stern

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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

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

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The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

Mark Ruffalo

The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

Mark Ruffalo

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

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

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A proper respect for nature means that you can’t pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

Jay Parini

A proper respect for nature means that you can’t pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

Jay Parini

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I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.

John Burnside

I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.

John Burnside

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I’m not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

Isaac Mizrahi

I’m not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

Isaac Mizrahi

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

Jose Saramago

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

Jose Saramago

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I haven’t swam in any of the rivers outside of Baltimore. I try to keep it in the pool.

Michael Phelps

I haven’t swam in any of the rivers outside of Baltimore. I try to keep it in the pool.

Michael Phelps

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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

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

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I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can’t stand that.

Norman MacCaig

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can’t stand that.

Norman MacCaig

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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Orison Swett Marden

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Nikita Khrushchev

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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

Boris Johnson

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

Boris Johnson

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If you’re trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you’re not much of a patriot.

Douglas Tompkins

If you’re trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you’re not much of a patriot.

Douglas Tompkins

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Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America’s most treasured landscapes.

Lydia Millet

Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America’s most treasured landscapes.

Lydia Millet

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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

John Dryden

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

John Dryden

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A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the ’90s has survived the boom and bust years.

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.

A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they’re next to.

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.

The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

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

A proper respect for nature means that you can’t pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.

I’m not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

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

I haven’t swam in any of the rivers outside of Baltimore. I try to keep it in the pool.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can’t stand that.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

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

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

If you’re trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you’re not much of a patriot.

Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America’s most treasured landscapes.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.