Quotes about Rivers

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

We are conserving fully functioning forest systems, so all of the elements that maintain the integrity of a forest over time are protected, including the rivers. There are over 300 miles of rivers in the forests that we're securing here in North Carolina, and rivers are really the life blood of any forest.

Steve Mccormick

Rivers, streams and lakes are measurably cleaner than they were before the Clean Water Act, but we still have a long way to go.

Bob Irvin

London is vulnerable to flooding -- be it from the Thames tide, from rivers as a result of heavy rainfall, or from our drainage system.

Roger Evans

Once a watershed is past 30 percent (developed) it's gone, ... Critters and endangered species are important, but the main reason for protecting the Pinelands was to preserve water quality, the aquifer and the rivers and estuaries.

Jeff Tittel

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

Parris Glendening

They're really important to the ecology of these rivers and they perform important functions in filtration and processing water.

Rita Villella

Connecticut closed their rivers in 2002 and Massachusetts last November. Rhode Island followed suit and we have reciprocal regulations with the other two states. This all happened over the last few months.

Phil Edwards

This is a good team. They played Rivers, who's undefeated, down to the wire, so we had a pretty good day.

Michael Herring

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

Remnants of Ivan met with a front over the area that would have brought heavy rains anyway, that's a lot of water in a hurry. Plus a lot of it came over headwaters at rivers and creeks. It happens.

Larry Nierenberg

I always tell people that it's not very good to put water features in a bedroom -- not even paintings of lakes and rivers -- because that could lead to losses, particularly financial losses. Sometimes it also leads to a loss in relationship.

Lillian Too

What separates Laughlin Ranch is its proximity to one of America's mightiest rivers. You can build the Eiffel Tower, Pyramids and the Las Vegas casinos, but you can't re-create the Colorado River.

Dave Lords

The dynamics of rainfall and erosion don't change over the years, but we do have urban sprawl. We used to have rivers and now we have housing developments (downstream).

Kekoa Paulsen

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.

Native American Proverb

This project strikes to the heart of our mission to connect people and communities to the rivers and to make the riverfronts the front yard of the city.

Lisa Schroeder

The real problem is not that Africa is a 'desert with no rivers flowing'. It's that big, multinational corporations all over the world come in and exploit the resources and leave Africa with nothing.

Nick Diamonds

Researches reported that they developed a "self-healing" plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.

Tina Fey

There has been so much forest lost all over the country, and it takes years for trees to grow back. This is why so many rivers are drying up as well, everything suffers with the loss of our forests.

Freddy Mella

I am asking all our countrymen living near rivers to prepare so that we can prevent any tragedy.

Joseph Estrada

He has done shows for celebrities like Regis Philbin and Joan Rivers.

Scott Konkol

Representative Kind's proposal addresses the single greatest threat to rivers in the heartland and across the nation.

Jeff Stein

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

Clint Walker

Our board has been very consistent and aggressive in its opposition to the expansion of gambling outside the existing confines of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

Ross Summers

We realize as much as anyone how important it is to our future. I've been here since '75 and the reason I've never left, frankly, is those rivers and creeks.

Tim Hendricks

We've had (rain) accumulations of as much as 25 inches in some locations. We're going to see that show up in the rivers for the next two or three days, eventually into the Rio Grande.

Jerry Jarrell

Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Terry Tempest Williams

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Gene Brown

The idea is to make it as easy as possible for people to enjoy rivers and learn about river systems.

Melissa Parker

It was warmer than it is today, a big delta with a fan of rivers. It had a dry, mild Mediterranean climate, exotic beasts and lots of resources.

Christopher Stringer

Women face fear differently. And there is fear in kayaking - like drowning and some very scary rivers. I think that women have to express their fear, and sometimes, that means to cry. Just being able to express yourself without putting a game face on, that makes it very comforting to be with women.

Michelle Tennant

A case for Red River's importance to our military could have never been made had it not been for all of those employees that will never be named in the papers or seen on TV.

Blanche Lincoln

It's best to try and get it when the river's coming down a bit. When it's warm enough for the fish to move but not warm enough for the snow to melt, the fishing can be fantastic.

Adam Grant

We've had one storm after another, but the rivers have gotten one day or two to dry out a bit.

Gary Barbato

It all depends on the weather. We're doubting a large number this year because the rivers aren't frozen.

Karen Armstrong

We need to do a better job of keeping drugs out of lakes, rivers and drinking water.

Gord Miller

But he happened to run into Caribbean islands [full of] gold. The gold had actually come to the surface and was in the rivers. It was very easily accessible.

Patricia Seed

We hope these accomplishments and momentum will carry over into a successful fall season and year for Rivers athletics.

Jim Mcnally

The North River is a river in recovery. It has the potential to be a wonderful natural resource. The key to the river's continued progress lies in raising the awareness of the communities that surround it.

Barbara Warren

It was a good competitive effort against a team that beat the No. 9 team (Moberly, Mo.) in the nation by 10 points a few days ago. We got a lot of good shots tonight; they just didn't go in. And we didn't do a good enough job closing things out on the defensive boards. We gave Three Rivers too many extra shots.

Marty Hawkins

You can chew on the air in some cities, and the rivers run in Technicolor. Poor people have little access to health care, and the gap between rich and poor is growing.

James Mcgregor

The road was insane. We crossed bodies of water -- rivers --12 times.

Andy Neary

If you have things near the river?s edge, bring them in. Don?t let them float down the river.

Dan Mundell

Pat Riley has lost three of four in the first round. I guess [Rivers has] got to study history a little more.

George Karl

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Kevin Curry

I hope monitoring cross-border rivers is just a beginning of the two countries' co-operation on environmental protection. China and Russia need to jointly develop comprehensive environmental protection.

Zhou Shengxian