Quotes of: Mississippi-river Keyword

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

Dougray Scott

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

Gideon Raff

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

Hugh Bonneville

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Jeremy Gilley

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

Jeremy Irvine

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

Jay Leno

I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.

Josh Peck

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

Jon Voight

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

Mandy Patinkin

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

Patrick Macnee

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Werner Herzog

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Kiana Tom

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Ron White

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Wilson Mizner

The mercy bullet I envy horses: if they break a leg and feel humiliated because they can no longer charge back and forth in the wind, they are cured by a mercy bullet. So if something in me gets broken, physically or spiritually, I would do well to l...

A River Dies of Thirst: journals

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those ...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your ...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power...

Old Rose and Silver

One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certain place in the hills above the river in the Silver Time, a little piece of my world, that became my world. |Every night I took it out and held it in m...

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth

There's a stream that trickles through all of us. It's always there. It's evil and we know this, so we force it to mix with the larger river inside us. We let it be consumed by the greater flow of good. But when the good in the river runs dry and the...

Where Serpents Lie