Quotes of: Mississippi-river Keyword

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

Sally Kirkland

I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago. When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or when I...

Clockwork Princess

From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter than all save the eyes of Eleonora; and, winding stealthily about in mazy courses, it passed away, at length, throug...

Eleonora

The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms. We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black wo...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: Classic Annotated and Illustrated 1818 'Uncensored' Edition: The Modern Prometheus

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods — her fertile fields — her beautiful rivers — her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turn...

Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

But there was nothing. No village or town as far as her eyes could strain. Nowhere for her saviours to come from and take her to; just fields and trees and the weeping arc of the river Greave all the way to the horizon. Just like in the books, Greave...

Greaveburn

When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a whole that is different from the sum of its parts. What I saw might have been just another winter...

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that within myself, things were breaking of much more importance than a glass, and I’m happy for that. Look to your own inner struggles and break this glass. ...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: I know she meant to kill me 'fore the Doc put her to sleep, which how exactly does that work anyhow? Dr. Simon Tam: Safeword. The people who helped me break River out - they had intel that River and the other subjects were bei...

Serenity

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

Cane River

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.

Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Forgotten Pleasures

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

Frost

Seguro que sabéis que cuando uno está en su propia habitación, en su propia cama, una situación triste puede mejorar un poco

The Bad Beginning

So easy to go sailing off this road. A wonder more folks didn't. All that space, waiting.

Black River

Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.

Chantress Alchemy

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.

Colin Trevorrow

It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.

Harmony Korine

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

Harold Prince