#river

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#authority #bus #bus driver #chicago #driver

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#air pollution #been #coastal #cut #dramatically

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#i love #jumping #love #once #remember

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#anyone #arduous #boat #continent #going

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.' ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#any #been #distinctive #does #grandfather

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#assumes #even #law #like #man

I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#entire #i #i believe #i believe that #jordan

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#four #grandfather #house #i #little

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point. ↗

— Edwin Newman

#boiling #decade #mighty #point #reached

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#back #business #businesses #demand #driver