Quotes Tagged "rivers"

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Camomille: Fallible men write books. God writes in sunlight and rivers and planets. Isn't the Universe a good book? I trust it above the printed kind.

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

All journeys meet crossroads. Where the river ends, the ocean begins. We must have the courage to embark on these journeys, to choose our paths, and to let go of the boat once we are across the river.

A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.

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.

The language of a river inscribes over eyes of moths and flies the navel of the land is a lake.

My love for you is like the vast ocean, And my poems are merely rivers adding love to it.

It is extremely chilling that Donald Trump views the spectacle of choosing cabinet appointments in a way that is similar to deciding whether or not to fire Lil Jon or Joan Rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.