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You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.Collection: Rivers
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.Collection: Rivers
Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.Collection: Rivers
Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!Collection: Rivers
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.Collection: Rivers
It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.Collection: Rivers
In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.Collection: Rivers
This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.Collection: Rivers
The river is everywhere.Collection: Rivers
Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.Collection: Rivers
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.Collection: Rivers
We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.Collection: Rivers
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.Collection: Rivers
Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).Collection: Rivers
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imaginationCollection: Rivers
All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.Collection: Rivers
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.Collection: Rivers
The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.Collection: Rivers
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!Collection: Rivers
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.Collection: Rivers
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.Collection: Rivers
Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.Collection: Rivers
Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River.Collection: Rivers
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.Collection: Rivers
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.Collection: Rivers
Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.Collection: Rivers
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).Collection: Rivers
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.Collection: Rivers
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.Collection: Rivers
Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.Collection: Rivers
Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!Collection: Rivers
Be a river - not a reservoir.Collection: Rivers
We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, tooCollection: Rivers
I am haunted by waters.Collection: Rivers