Quotes with rivers

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  • Candice S. Miller 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.
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  • Joan Rivers People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, - you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Joan Rivers Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Berton Braley The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
    Berton Braley
     
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  • Gene Brown The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
    Gene Brown
    American author and editor (1942 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Napoleon Hill The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Billy Sunday The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
    Source: As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Aldous Huxley The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joan Rivers There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • W. Secker Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.
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  • Edward Dahlberg We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • George William Curtis 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
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Rupert Brooke But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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