Quotes of: Mississippi-river Keyword

One man cut the barrage, and a thousand people fell into the river.

Kashmiri

The water from the river becomes salty when it reaches the ocean.

Sanskrit

You cannot cross a river without getting wet.

Zulu

The bastard. How dare he? I was drowning in a fucking river that he was still attempting to save me from, and he was telling me he was going to push me back in and hold me under. My father's death had nearly destroyed me. Cal's death would finish me.

Into This River I Drown

The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I ha...

Jayber Crow

There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

when that small Siberian bird fell out of the sky over Gray's River, not once but twice, he brought with him the sweetness of chance in any place, the certainty of wonder in all places. And if that's not grace, I don't know what it.

Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.

Saving the Sheriff: A Three River Ranch Novella

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

The River of Winged Dreams

Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.

The River of Winged Dreams

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

Chen Shui-bian

Colonel Nicholson: [recognizes Shears] You? Major Shears: [lunges at Nicholson] You!

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anythi...

Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman

Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.

Chinese

More people drown in glasses than in rivers.

German

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.

Indian

A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.

Liberian

Let your love be like drizzle: it comes softly, but still swells the river.

Malagasy

Don't undo your bootlaces until you have seen the river.

Mongolian

Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

Spoon River Anthology