Quotes of: Mississippi-river Keyword

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

The Memory Palace

There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.

Mink River

Maybe, thinking about it now, we were trying to figure out how to make love in such a way as to make time not matter at all, or defeat it for awhile. Which we did for awhile.

Mink River

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want,pooled in the shape of a girl.

Matched

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death. 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

If time were a river, he felt as if eternity had stopped beside him on the bank to rest, sharing every story ever told, every victory ever won, every love ever known.

The Last Encore

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

Like the Flowing River

The way to Elfin is found on the path That weaves through the Misty Forest That lives between the Mountain of Vision And the River of Reality

The Magical Elven Love Letters, Volume 1

Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?" Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway.

The Son of Neptune

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface...

Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories

I hate going back. I’d rather live at the bottom of my river of black, dragged this way and that by the forces that be, than go back there. Those forty-eight hours took twenty years to drown.

The Social Worker

But be sure that human feelings can never be completely stilled. If they are forbidden from their normal course, like a river they will cut another channel through the life and flow out to curse and ruin and destroy

That Incredible Christian

It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is undependable at best, and folks in one river system are always trying to steal water from another.

Threshold

Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend. "The traditional thing," he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack.

Plain Kate

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.

Peace Like a River

I have a lot of time for vegetarians (though apparently not of them have a lot of time for me), and that's because I respect anyone with principles about food.

River Cottage Veg Every Day!

The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.

Those Across the River

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness