#river

While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn’t sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn’t such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#falling-in-love #funny-but-true #humour #humourosly-inspirational #love

It is not required that we know all of the details about every stretch of the river. Indeed, were we to know, it would not be an adventure, and I wonder if there would be much point in the journey. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#grace #life-journey #navigation #river #life

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, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam. ↗

— Myrtle Reed

#life-and-living #nature #river #rivers #life

She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it. ↗

— Lynn Kurland

#life

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. ↗

— Max Muller

#bank #change #either #landscape #life

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#cause #down #driven #every #inevitable

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#fence #immigration #part #process #rio

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#driver #only #replace #take #tool

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#breathtaking #congress #country #embodied #landscapes

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#attention #began #experiments #first #gamma