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Letter "R" » rivers
«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.»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Country,
Loyalty,
Patriotism,
Principles
| Keywords:
area, land area, loyalty, rivers, woods
«Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
excellent, Fields, lakes, Lake of, mountain, rivers, schoolmasters, the Mountain, The Sea, woods
«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.»
Author: Rupert Brooke
(Poet)
| Keywords:
begun, fishy, immense, omnipotent, rivers, slime, slimier, slimy, space and time, swam, wetter
«For the sake of it, you journey to sacred shrines and holy rivers; but this priceless jewel is within your own heart.»
«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.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Existence
| Keywords:
animate, animates, clouds, crystal, crystals, forests, glacier, glaciers, impress, inanimate, lakes, Lake of, rivers, snowflake, snowflakes, stupendous, the Crystal, winds
«And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.»
«And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.»
«Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.»
«Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot!»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
across, admit, differently, drive, mart, marts, owners, parked, parking, parking lot, rivers, shaped, sport, sport utility, sport utility vehicle, station wagon, The Station, utilities, utility, vehicle, wagon, wagons, you-drive
«India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with the sky, is our nearest visible symbol of the vast, the boundless, the i»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
boundless, chose, forests, hills, Holy Places, India, nearest, pilgrimages, rivers, shores, symbol, The Holy Mountain, The Pilgrimage, visible
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