River Quotes

‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.’ – Heraclitus

‘You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.’ – Mark Twain

‘What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.’ – Jay Inslee

‘Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.’ – J. B. Priestley

‘For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.’ – Enoch Powell

‘Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.’ – Jorge Luis Borges

”Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream’ is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan’s Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?’ – Alex Gibney

‘You can’t be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.’ – Jim Harrison

‘Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.’ – Minna Antrim

‘The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.’ – Ross Perot

‘If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.” – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.’ – G. Stanley Hall

‘We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.’ – John Wesley Powell

‘I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.’ – Pablo Neruda

‘Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.’ – Cordell Hull

‘I don’t make a particular distinction between ‘high art’ and ‘low art.’ Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.’ – John Williams

‘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

‘I’m really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow… I stay at home and watch the river flow.’ – George Harrison

‘The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.’ – Eartha Kitt

‘From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.’ – Algernon Charles Swinburne

‘What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.’ – Hal Boyle

‘I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.’ – Zhuangzi

‘It’s an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I’m really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.’ – Steve McFadden

‘Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.’ – Nostradamus

‘Love is the river of life in the world.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.’ – W. H. Auden

‘Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.’ – Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

‘It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.’ – Mikhail Lermontov

‘Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.’ – Jane Fonda

‘In Einstein’s equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.’ – Norman Maclean

‘In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.’ – Brian Clough

‘To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, – the River of Heaven, – the Silver Stream.’ – Lafcadio Hearn

‘If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.’ – Peter Benchley

‘Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?’ – Blaise Pascal

‘Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‘Be still, and know that I am God.’ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.’ – Rebecca Harding Davis

‘I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.’ – James Cameron

‘You can’t do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.’ – Stacey Snider

‘Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.’ – Julie Andrews

‘James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.’ – Kaley Cuoco

‘I like to be able to go out to dinner once in a while. I like to be able to drive my MG up the McKenzie River on a weekday afternoon. I like to be able to pay my bills on time.’ – Steve Prefontaine

”River’ is all about tension and release. It’s about intimacy and solace. It’s about staring someone in the face and not backing down.’ – Bishop Briggs

‘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

‘For centuries, the Yangtze River – the longest in Asia – has played an important role in China’s history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon

‘I was searching for a way to demonstrate 3D movement to my students and one day found myself staring into the River Danube, looking at how the water moved around the pebbles. This became the inspiration for the cube’s twisting mechanism. The fact that it can do this without falling apart is part of its magic.’ – Erno Rubik

‘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

‘I was on the Mekong River between the border of Thailand and Laos. I was there to find the elusive Mekong giant catfish but the border police were suspicious. Along with my film, they confiscated my passport and started making accusations about my political allegiances.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.’ – Daniel Boone

‘Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca’s day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.’ – Brooke Astor

‘All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.’ – Simone Schwarz-Bart

‘Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown, the biggest cause of river pollution and a hefty source of air pollution.’ – George Monbiot

‘I started fishing with my dad on the River Lea in London.’ – Paul Whitehouse

‘Grief is like a moving river, so that’s what I mean by it’s always changing. It’s a strange thing to say because I’m at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It’s just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.’ – Michelle Williams

‘The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.’ – Vinoba Bhave

‘I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, ‘Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?” – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘You know it’s only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.’ – Don Shula

‘The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.’ – John Dalberg-Acton

‘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

‘When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, ‘Safety begins in the boardroom.’ That’s as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.’ – Chesley Sullenberger

‘The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.’ – Cyril Connolly

‘George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn’t always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.’ – George Foreman

‘The Hudson River lay flat and black like a lost evening glove. The clouds parted overhead as the distant moon threw a single, bright beam over lower Manhattan as though it were looking for its other half.’ – Adriana Trigiani

‘In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I’d never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, ‘stripeys,’ which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.’ – Daniel Boulud

‘Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘You cannot step into the same river twice.’ – Heraclitus

‘When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio

‘Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.’ – Horace

‘I’m from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions – very primitive.’ – Iris Apfel

‘I have no driver’s license, so I ride a bicycle beside the Han River. That’s what I really love because no one gives a damn about me for that moment. I feel so free.’ – RM

‘We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.’ – Adlai Stevenson II

‘Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.’ – Patrick Kavanagh

‘In Porto, it’s a tourist city. It’s close to the river, the ocean as well. There’s a lot of history.’ – Ruben Neves

‘I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just ‘Wind River.’ They don’t exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don’t keep those stats.’ – Taylor Sheridan

‘Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.’ – Aaron Swartz

‘There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.’ – Vash Young

‘Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River has long been the mother of waters for mid-Atlantic rowers, just as the Charles, which separates Boston from Cambridge, is for New England boaters.’ – Roger Morris

‘It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.’ – Chris Kilham

‘I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don’t think it’s true of people who’ve grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don’t think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it’s a different kind of love.’ – Arundhati Roy

‘The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.’ – Adoniram Judson

‘How to get over the river was the bother. At last, after thinking a heap about it, I came to the conclusion that I always did: that the boldest plan is the best and safest.’ – Wild Bill Hickok

‘I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.’ – Maya Angelou

‘People worship and revere Ganga as a mother, and then throw away flowers in a plastic bag into the same river.’ – Dia Mirza

‘Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon’s main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.’ – Alex Shoumatoff

‘I miss aspects of being in the Arab world – the language – and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it’s Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, ‘This river has flown here for thousands of years.’ There are magical moments in these places.’ – Zaha Hadid

‘There are so many times in one’s life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.’ – Eric Burdon

‘It’s hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.’ – James Houston

‘I know exactly what my songs are about and I try not to tell people, because a friend of mine really loves ‘Stop Your Tears’ and I made the mistake of telling her what it’s about one day. Now she has to distract herself and look elsewhere when I sing the last verse about being at the river with the baby, because she knows too much.’ – Aldous Harding

‘With ‘River Monsters’, I am the investigator: here’s the crime scene, I talk to witnesses, I establish a suspects list, I narrow it down; here’s the prime suspect, I go and arrest the prime suspect – who often doesn’t want to come quietly.’ – Jeremy Wade

”The Secret River’ began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.’ – Kate Grenville

‘Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.’ – Francis Bacon

‘You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you’re simply not the same as when you started out.’ – Jim Harrison

‘I am not excited about Bitcoin. I think it’s an outrage that, in an era of global warming, there are racks of servers next to the Columbia River. I wish I could explain to the salmon that we’ve created a dam generating hydroelectric power so that we can generate a fake currency.’ – Glenn Kelman

‘I almost drowned in the Hooghly river, which is something really crazy. If there is something about Calcutta that scares me, it’s that.’ – Saroo Brierley

‘I had no idea ‘Moon River’ would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it.’ – Henry Mancini

‘The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world – among the greatest cities in the world.’ – Paul Theroux

‘My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That’s the kind of place we lived in.’ – Takashi Murakami

‘At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.’ – Bob Edwards

‘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

‘One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting – not well; I am a terrible shot – quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.’ – Jon Meacham

‘The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.’ – Billy Gibbons

‘The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.’ – Alexander McCall Smith

‘A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We’re of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there’s more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.’ – Jane Hamilton

‘Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.’ – Victor Hugo

‘It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren’t far away.’ – Norman Rockwell

‘Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.’ – Michio Kaku

”Bless Me, Ultima’ is quite autobiographical in the sense that I was writing a story about my childhood, my hometown where I grew up, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, on Old Highway 66 and the Pecos River. So a great deal of that environment, landscape, people, got thrown in the novel.’ – Rudolfo Anaya

‘The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.’ – Marjory Stoneman Douglas

‘A conventional crime story is simple – it’s just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.’ – David Lagercrantz

‘We will stand by Punjab, Punjabis and Punjabiat, unlike Parkash Singh Badal, who makes Chandigarh, river waters and other emotive issues his bread and butter during the elections.’ – Gurpreet Ghuggi

‘When I heard ‘Moon River’, at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to the words and realized this song was about Huck Finn. I just love the words, that it’s kind of you and me against the world, and we’re going to make it together.’ – Drew Holcomb

‘I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It’s a lovely part of the world.’ – Alexander Hanson

‘I grew up in a little village in England that had a river running through it so I’ve been fishing from a very early age, maybe seven or eight.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.’ – Trygve Lie

‘I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.’ – Emeril Lagasse

‘I never set fire to a piano. I’d like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn’t any good.’ – Jerry Lee Lewis

‘As an avid hunter and outdoorsman, I am blessed to call the bank of the great Yellowstone River outside Glendive my home.’ – Matt Rosendale

”Mystic River’ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘We’re not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we’re eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We’re dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We’re going for the building blocks.’ – Anohni

‘I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.’ – Gore Vidal

‘My son was baptized in the River Jordan.’ – Jeff Gutt

‘We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.’ – Filippo Brunelleschi

‘I’m in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I’ve been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It’s a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I’m trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.’ – Mark Margolis

‘Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.’ – Leonard Nimoy

‘When you pollute a river, it’s a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.’ – Paul Hawken

‘The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.’ – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

‘I’ll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I’ll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you’re sure that I’m the one.’ – Gary Allan

‘The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God’s Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.’ – Antonio Porchia

‘To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.’ – Clifton Fadiman

‘Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.’ – Horace

‘About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.’ – Frank Yerby

‘I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.’ – Ken Salazar

‘Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren’t changed.’ – Mike Rounds

‘We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.’ – John Hope

‘Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.’ – William Davenant

‘When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.’ – John Moody

‘Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.’ – John Moody

‘There’s one of my new poems actually – is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.’ – Robert Adamson

‘There’s a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don’t know what the title of it is.’ – Edgar Winter

‘After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.’ – William Henry Ashley

‘I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.’ – William Henry Ashley

‘The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.’ – William Henry Ashley

‘They’ve got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.’ – John Anderson

‘The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.’ – William Whipple

‘I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.’ – Joaquin Phoenix

‘No, I don’t want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public.’ – Joaquin Phoenix

‘We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.’ – Knute Nelson

‘Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.’ – Jerry Costello

‘We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.’ – Roy Barnes

‘We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.’ – Roy Barnes

‘There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.’ – Peter Garrett

‘You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.’ – Black Elk

‘In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.’ – Daniel Boone

‘The sea has now changed from it’s natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.’ – George Vancouver

‘Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.’ – Jim Fowler

‘The Zambesi is a big river; there’s no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run.’ – Jim Fowler

‘It’s the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we’ll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.’ – Robert Creeley

‘In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we’d have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.’ – Haile Gebrselassie

‘Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.’ – Ron Kind

‘Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.’ – Ron Kind

‘As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river’s health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.’ – Ron Kind

‘In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.’ – Ron Kind

‘One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.’ – Ron Kind

‘Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.’ – Terry Southern

‘Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.’ – Willy Ley

‘My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.’ – Albert Finney

‘I like to interpret ‘Call me a River’, as if I’m saying, ‘Now you’re telling me you love me after all that, and I’m telling you to shove off.’ That’s my interpretation. But I would never ‘say’ that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.’ – Diana Krall

‘Salzburg… is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.’ – Jonathan Carroll

‘I’ve always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they’d just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don’t need America or someone else to help.’ – Bruce Dern

‘We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.’ – Charles Sturt

‘These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor’s information.’ – Charles Sturt

‘We’re loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.’ – Richard Dean Anderson

‘We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.’ – Chief Joseph

‘Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.’ – Carol P. Christ

‘As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.’ – Gordon Sinclair

‘Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market.’ – Leonard Boswell

‘My favorite holiday spot has to be New York, on the St. Lawrence River. Without a doubt that area there is perfect for me. Very, very spacious. It’s nice.’ – Tom Felton

‘Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.’ – Tom Felton

‘If I were mayor, I’d invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I’d let the elderly in residential homes wander free.’ – Jane Birkin

‘I’m a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That’s where I live. It’s beautiful, no two ways about it.’ – Margot Kidder

‘A few hours’ ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.’ – Francis Parkman

‘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

‘Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.’ – William Bartram

‘After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.’ – Buffalo Bill

‘I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.’ – Fanny Kemble

‘While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.’ – Max Muller

‘What I didn’t know was that if I didn’t stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.’ – Joseph Wambaugh

‘Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.’ – Robert Brady

‘Mr. Speaker, Delaware River’s regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.’ – Robert Brady

‘Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay.’ – Robert Brady

‘The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.’ – Ernest Thompson Seton

‘But now, today, we don’t know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.’ – Christo

‘The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven’t got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.’ – Christo

‘I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the – you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.’ – James Cameron

‘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

‘I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.’ – William Christopher Handy

‘Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.’ – Paul Cezanne

‘John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.’ – Kenneth Scott Latourette

‘All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.’ – Richard Harding Davis

‘I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Just as there’s garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.’ – Pat Buchanan

‘Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘I think we all share a view about wanting to make sure we have a healthy river and we’re looking forward to the plan and in the lead-up to that we’ve agreed to speak again.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘We’ve been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we’re determined not to squander that opportunity.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.’ – Emile Hirsch

‘You’ve never seen Manhattan ’til you’ve flown right up the East River. It’s beautiful.’ – Cory Lidle

‘So don’t send me up the river yet.’ – Wesley Snipes

‘Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn’t – they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.’ – Ann Rutherford

‘I’m in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I’ve got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I’ve got my work 40 yards from my home. I don’t mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?’ – Jay Kay

‘Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn’t part of America’s immigration process.’ – Ted Nugent

‘The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn’t have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.’ – Kerry Washington

‘Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.’ – Clive Anderson

‘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

‘The thing is, people can’t complain about profit-oriented moves if they’re only interested in profit themselves. You can’t have it both ways. If they’re willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can’t really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That’s the way it goes.’ – Ian MacKaye

‘I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that’s all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.’ – Halle Berry

‘I would just sweat so much. I’d be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don’t know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.’ – Nickolas Ashford

‘I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got ‘Frozen River’ kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.’ – Melissa Leo

‘People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can’t play ‘Swanee River’ on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.’ – Eugene Chadbourne

‘There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary.’ – Matt Gonzalez

‘I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It’s a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.’ – Gail Simmons

‘New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.’ – Jerry Saltz

‘I do all the cooking in our family. I’m a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one – I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate – but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.’ – Patrick Duffy

‘Alabama – they were the masters of that. They could come out with ‘Mountain Music’ or ‘Tennessee River’ and then turn around and come out with ‘Feels So Right.’ Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every woman in America want Randy Owen.’ – Jason Aldean

‘A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn’t have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it’s really beautiful.’ – Sam Trammell

‘When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn’t have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It’s really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.’ – Mike Mills

”Envy the Night’ was my first stand alone, the first book I’d written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. ‘So Cold the River,’ I knew, was going to be really different, and that’s why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn’t want to damage my career.’ – Michael Koryta

‘I made a very conscious effort to finish ‘The Cypress House’ before ‘So Cold the River’ launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.’ – Michael Koryta

‘I’ve always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, ‘So Cold the River,’ for which the brilliant strings piece ‘Short Trip Home,’ composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.’ – Michael Koryta

‘For ‘So Cold the River,’ I’m actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for ‘The Fighter,’ and who also wrote ‘8 Mile,’ which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I’m learning a lot.’ – Michael Koryta

‘Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, ‘This guy is very cool.’ I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.’ – Jim Sturgess

‘In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. ‘Crossing the River Jordan’ was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.’ – Kathleen Battle

‘I’ve learned from being in the woods that titles don’t mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words – even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act – people who want to run the river or climb the mountain – even if they’re not members of my political party.’ – Mark Udall

‘I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.’ – Karl Marlantes

‘I wouldn’t have the life I have without television. I wouldn’t be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn’t be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.’ – Susan Sullivan

‘The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.’ – Denise Mina

‘Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won’t be a single cell left in any of our bodies that’s the same as it is today. This means that any human being who ‘wants’ to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It’s a done deal; that’s what mountain rivers do, and ‘changing’ should be our first nature.’ – Guy Finley

‘Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.’ – Guy Finley

‘I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don’t know how to explain it, because I’m not a political person. I have two political stories, and that’s it: ‘Human Diastrophism’ and ‘Poison River.” – Gilbert Hernandez

‘It wasn’t until I started to do ‘Poison River’ that the readership started falling. ‘Poison River’ started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don’t know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.’ – Gilbert Hernandez

‘I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.’ – Aleksandar Hemon

‘Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It’s like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.’ – Donald Miller

‘People think that when you’re connected with other people it’s more painful. The opposite is true. When you’re connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there’s a flow in the river.’ – Eve Ensler

‘My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.’ – Tim Cahill

‘The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That’s the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher… being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.’ – Kurt Bills

‘I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, ‘He really sold him under the bus.’ And he said, ‘I think you meant ‘threw him under the bus,’ or ‘sold him up the river.” – Cristin Milioti

‘A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.’ – Melody Carlson

‘I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.’ – Lucy Larcom

‘Faith? Haven’t any. I’m not a nihilist or a relativist. I don’t believe in anything but change. I’m a Heraclitean – you can’t step in the same river twice.’ – Philip Johnson

‘I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.’ – Walter Payton

‘When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.’ – Lady Gregory

‘I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.’ – Louis Bacon

‘My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.’ – Louis Bacon

‘You can’t get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you’re an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.’ – Jonathan Tisch

‘I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife – from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.’ – Antony Gormley

‘I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I’ve also always wanted to look at the wood carvings along the Sepik River in New Guinea.’ – Antony Gormley

‘I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don’t see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.’ – Anthony Bourdain

‘The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.’ – Cesar Pelli

‘Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.’ – Saint Ambrose

‘I used to waterski on the Niagara River.’ – Kim Alexis

‘In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.’ – Janet Echelman

‘With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.’ – Nathan Wolfe

‘It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, ‘This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.’ I used to say, ‘One day, I’m going to travel these places.” – Jimmy Cliff

‘I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water – no tap water, and no electricity – and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.’ – Ishmael Beah

‘I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.’ – Jose Saramago

‘I couldn’t wait to get on the ice. I couldn’t wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn’t wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.’ – Bobby Orr

‘If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category. There’s no sense to it.’ – Louis L’Amour

‘We live, in North America in general, if I’m given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘I’ve only had one platinum album, and it’s ‘Red River Blue’.’ – Blake Shelton

‘I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.’ – David Byrne

‘I’m not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It’s vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.’ – Anna Chancellor

‘When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and I was just in heaven.’ – Dick Dale

‘I live in a market town in a mill house with the river running both sides and Somerfield’s car park only a loose nine iron away, and I really, really, really love it.’ – David Hemmings

‘I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I’ve also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It’s peaceful and awesome.’ – Conor Oberst

‘I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I’m from the West Coast of New Jersey.’ – Adam Hughes

‘My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.’ – Jamie Cullum

‘For centuries my father’s family lived on Britain’s biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.’ – Edward Rutherfurd

‘I myself was born beside a river – the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York’s great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure and a deep sense of homecoming.’ – Edward Rutherfurd

‘A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.’ – William Cullen Bryant

‘Paris’s neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl – a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig’s tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.’ – Rosecrans Baldwin

‘I came to San Antonio, and it’s known for the River Walk. So I was just doing some sightseeing, I looked at the bridge and I thought, ‘Man, if I do a flip off this bridge, that would be super-cool.’ I don’t recommend anybody jump off that bridge.’ – Steve-O

‘I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I’ve rowed in various places, including the Ganges in India, the River Shannon in Ireland, and the Sea of Galilee.’ – Rosemary Mahoney

‘What’s happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it’s polluted in some places.’ – Greg MacGillivray

‘If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don’t think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.’ – Sarah Parcak

‘Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots – who provide specialized local navigation – when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.’ – Rose George

‘One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It’s a big broad valley with a river flowing through it, and you can see the wine-making dryness of the land.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘On ‘Mystic River,’ I had to cut my salary and everyone else’s to get it made.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘I’ve watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on and on.’ – Willie Aames

‘I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing ‘Cry Me A River’ on ‘The X Factor.’ That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.’ – Liam Payne

‘I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment.’ – Steve Southerland

‘When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.’ – Peter Singer

‘When I made ‘Who Needs Pictures,’ my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life, and that was in fourth grade. We traveled to California for vacation and stayed with some friends of my parents. It was culture shock, and it was different.’ – Brad Paisley

‘I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.’ – Chuck Klein

”River of Light,’ to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. ‘Look Homeward Angel’ and ‘Of Time and the River.’ ‘Of Time and the River’ had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, ‘Well, what’s he doing on the shelf, then?” – Tom Wolfe

‘I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.’ – Alan G. Poindexter

‘People are always like, ‘Oh, ‘Jurassic Park’ is on…’ or ‘Oh, ‘The River Wild’ is on…’ I actually haven’t seen any of my movies in a long time. Being more self-aware now, and being an adult, I’m a little bit embarrassed to watch them.’ – Joseph Mazzello

‘I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for ‘Over the River,’ we started in 1992. I was just finishing ‘The Umbrellas’ in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.’ – Christo

‘I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 – you really had to be 18, but they never checked me for ID.’ – Eric Christian Olsen

‘You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it’s not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative – it’s putting the theoretical into the practical world.’ – Brian Helgeland

‘When I began work on my first book, ‘The River of Doubt,’ which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.’ – Candice Millard

‘The I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, is tilting.’ – Anthony Foxx

‘Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama – and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River – broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it.’ – Tina Brown

‘The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them.’ – Martin Van Creveld

‘I had a ’56 Ford, and my first car was a ’49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river.’ – Craig T. Nelson

‘Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘The city of Cork – the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are – is actually an island, a river island.’ – John Jeremiah Sullivan

‘If you ask an actor what he’d prefer to act on, he’d probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location out on a mountainside or by a river. It’s just easier because you don’t have to imagine anything.’ – Luke Evans

‘Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his team along the Potomac River during one of his visits to Washington. I figured I could interview him while we ran.’ – Paula Broadwell

‘I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That’s what I really wanna do.’ – Billy Magnussen

‘I live in a beautiful part of the world – western New Hampshire along the Baker River – and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.’ – Joseph Monninger

‘I’ve never been far from the river. I’m sort of like a Thames-nymph.’ – Natalie Dormer

‘In the spring of 1968, The Beatles and I were invited by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to travel to Riskikesh, India. Riskikesh has been an important spiritual place to many millions of people over the years. It is situated where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas, and to be in that atmosphere was something incredibly special.’ – Mike Love

‘I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream.’ – Susan Glaspell

‘I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.’ – Dale T. Mortensen

‘It’s the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.’ – Giles Foden

‘I’ve always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a foreign actor, it’s like he’s stolen the crown jewels and run across the river with them.’ – Kevin Spacey

‘I like it when things crescendo to a huge moment like ‘Hold Back the River.” – James Bay

‘The thing about ‘Hold Back The River’ that I like is that it’s a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.’ – James Bay

‘If you have a river, then you should share it with everyone.’ – Chen Guangbiao

‘A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one’s son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.’ – Sandra Tsing Loh

‘In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.’ – Pankaj Mishra

‘I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.’ – Daniel Woodrell

‘I’ve always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.’ – Daniel Woodrell

‘I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.’ – Amy Carlson

‘What makes ‘American Pie’ so unusual is that it isn’t a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When ‘American Pie’ suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it’s almost impossible not to sing along.’ – Douglas Brinkley

‘I really love the idea of the poetically mad – the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from ‘Firefly’ or Drusilla from ‘Buffy.’ Someone dangerously unhinged, where you’re really not sure they’re going to be reliable minute-to-minute.’ – Holly Black

‘Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side.’ – David Hewson

‘Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.’ – David Hewson

‘Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can’t avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.’ – Nina Easton

‘When I visited the Water Institute’s Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn’t find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.’ – Nina Easton

‘Although Shanghai is on the sea, it long lacked the prosperity that Hong Kong enjoyed, so while Hong Kong became known for its exotic ocean creatures, Shanghai built its diet around more commonplace river and sea fish.’ – Evan Osnos

‘River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.’ – Zach Galligan

‘In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it’s clear this isn’t really a safe environment. She’s gone down to the River Styx – the dead are being ferried across in the background. There’s something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.’ – Eula Biss

‘Over the years, I found myself traveling parts of the Lewis and Clark Trail, putting my hands in the river where they set out from St. Louis, viewing the Great Falls of Montana, standing by the same Pacific Ocean they saw with such joy.’ – Joseph Bruchac

‘I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.’ – Eric Maskin

‘Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It’s an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.’ – Susan Vreeland

‘River City Improv set the stage for my career.’ – Marc Evan Jackson

‘I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I’ve fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.’ – Jenny Nimmo

‘When I first read ‘The River,’ I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it’s much simpler: It’s about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what’s relevant to their lives.’ – Laura Donnelly

‘One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, ‘Getting Closer,’ is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of ‘The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,’ a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.’ – Steven Millhauser

‘The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth’s plant and animal population. I hadn’t anticipated it would be so loud.’ – Bill Buford

‘The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him.’ – Dorothea Dix

‘Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage – I’m having fun.’ – Richie Furay

”Suttree’ is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written ‘The Orchard Keeper’ and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed ‘Huckleberry Finn.” – Jerome Charyn

‘While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘One of the reasons that New York became great was that it’s serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it’s serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.’ – Donald Trump

‘The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.’ – Isabella Bird

‘Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.’ – Isabella Bird

‘Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.’ – George Vecsey

‘The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords the best view of the churning upper rapids of the Niagara river.’ – Joan Lingard

‘I’m a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.’ – Rachel Platten

‘I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he’s on the banks of levee, and he’s starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he’s so desperate, he’s seven years old, that he finds a pig that’s been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.’ – Susan Straight

‘As with all great works of literature, ‘Of Mice and Men’ moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.’ – Jay Parini

‘Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.’ – Gladys Taber

‘Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land’s End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘Just to see if I liked vlogging, I uploaded a video of my sister and I cleaning up a river in a canoe for Earth Day. The sound was horrible, and the quality was horrible… But you have to blog what’s interesting to you and not care what anyone thinks.’ – Rosanna Pansino

‘Betting all your funds on the belief that you know what consumers want and are willing to pay for is like jumping into a river to test its depth – you’ll need a lot of luck to stay afloat. To have a truly successful product launch, the conversations with your customers must start long before you write your first line of code.’ – Jay Samit

‘Fifteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an authentic log cabin in Maryland. Painstakingly restored since, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high above a wide river frequented by ospreys, eagles, geese, herons, and other water fowl.’ – James Luceno

‘It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.’ – Stephen Vincent Benet

‘What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that’s not the kind of a state that’s going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.’ – Ian Lustick

‘My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveller into its embrace.’ – Rory MacLean

‘As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.’ – Ehud Barak

‘I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he’s the kind of leader who can reach an agreement or whether he wants to be the Moses of the Palestinians, staying in front of the river and not crossing into the promised land.’ – Ehud Barak

‘The removal of the British after the American Revolution opened the floodgates of paramilitary ranger power. For instance, in 1786, ranger units, including one that included Daniel Boone, attacked a number of friendly Shawnee towns along the Mad River.’ – Greg Grandin

‘I couldn’t resist painting Orpheus and Charon on the River Styx. There was something strangely intriguing about seeing Orpheus playing his lyre as he is being shuttled across the river.’ – John Rocco

‘The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the highest water quality in Connecticut.’ – Elizabeth Esty

‘What auto and steel is to Ohio River Valley, refineries are to the oil regions. You wouldn’t tell Silicon Valley you’re going to put a moratorium on high-tech.’ – Gene Green

‘If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He’s the river that’s carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do.’ – Jason Moran

‘In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.’ – Adrienne Mayor

‘There’s an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.’ – Tommy Lee Jones

‘I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that’s okay. I used to resent that, but I don’t anymore.’ – Tommy Lee Jones

‘I’m Australian, so I love the stores near Crowne Plaza Melbourne, on the banks of the Yarra River.’ – Jason Day

‘This is a beautiful country. Each of us has a favorite river, a mountain, just a patch of sky for some of us. I want to use the law to make sure that the waters, the land, and the skies of this nation are protected.’ – Janet Reno

”The River Wild’ was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent in a weird way. That was kind of interesting.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.’ – Clarence Clemons

‘We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event.’ – Lynn Good

‘My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.’ – J. Michael Bishop

‘Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country’s largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state’s gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin.’ – Lydia Millet

‘Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren’t on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.’ – Nathaniel Philbrick

‘I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.’ – John Sandford

‘Heath Ledger’s recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith’s not so much.’ – Theresa Rebeck

‘John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there’s a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.’ – Ethan Canin

‘If you think about art, if you look at Rembrandt and Vermeer and Caravaggio, if you look at Turner and Constable and all the Impressionists and the Hudson River School, there’s a tradition of light in art, especially painting.’ – James Turrell

‘I wrote ‘The River’ practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that’s who inspired you to write them.’ – Garth Brooks

‘There’s so many great Western films. Let’s see, ‘Red River,’ any of those Henry Fonda movies are fantastic. Any of those John Ford movies are fantastic. I love all the Eastwood ‘Man With No Name’ movies, John Wayne, ‘True Grit.” – Timothy Olyphant

‘The idea of standing five feet away from Norah Jones and listening to her sing Neil Young’s ‘Down By The River’ was just phenomenal. I compare that to what my kids know of at a concert, which is sitting in a stadium and watching a huge screen.’ – Mick Foley

‘Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp turn, and you don’t know what’s around the corner. It could be a waterfall, it could be a big pool. The narrative current carries you. You’re surprised, and you’re thrilled, and sometimes you’re terrified.’ – Peter Heller

‘I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.’ – Jaan Tallinn

‘I’d spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather’s farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton – basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It’s interesting how insular an environment can be.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘Trinity River Vision is huge for Fort Worth.’ – Marc Veasey

‘The River,’ to me, meant 43 songs.’ – Steven Van Zandt

‘A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they’re next to.’ – Alan Stern

‘The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The first mission to Jupiter didn’t expect to find ocean worlds and volcano worlds, but they did.’ – Alan Stern

‘Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an ‘Old Man River,’ way down in the bass.’ – Julie Andrews

‘It’s hokey, but I love sitting in an inner tube and taking it easy on a lazy river ride. I can sit there all day.’ – Darius Rucker

‘With ‘Wind River,’ I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy – accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it – without ever knowing what really happened.’ – Taylor Sheridan

‘I’ve been very fortunate with my three spec scripts – which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With ‘Sicario’, ‘Hell or High Water’ and then ‘Wind River’ – which is the third – there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.’ – Taylor Sheridan

‘I finished ‘Hell or High Water’ and started writing ‘Wind River’ literally the next day.’ – Taylor Sheridan

‘Show-wise, I love ‘Little Shop’ and ‘Big River’, ‘Avenue Q,’ and ‘Spring Awakening’.’ – Eric McCormack

‘I remember the defining moment when I first realised I was famous. I was in Africa staying in the little tent city there by the Masai Mara River. Two guys with spears looked at me and said, ‘Frasier?’ – Kelsey Grammer’ – Kelsey Grammer

‘It was in Austin that I had the idea for ‘Days of Heaven.’ I found myself alone for a summer in the town I had left as a high school student. There were those green, undulating hills, and this very beautiful river, the Colorado. The place is inspired and inspiring.’ – Terrence Malick

‘Hollywood’s fickle. It’s always been that way, and it will always be that way. And it’s always going to be somebody new and exciting comes along. That’s just the way it works, and it will always work that way. And I think that if you give it everything to the exclusion of your own real life and family, you’ve sold yourself down the river.’ – Sissy Spacek

‘I’m obsessed with Minnie Riperton’s voice: it’s like a smooth river of ice cold strawberry milk.’ – Justine Skye

‘Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it.’ – Rickey Medlocke

‘For thousands of years, we have gained the power to control the world outside us but not to control the world inside. You could stop a river from flowing, but you could not stop your body from becoming old. You could kill mosquitoes, but you could not kill annoying thoughts buzzing inside your head.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.’ – Trudie Styler

‘Typically, I spend a lot of time – mostly in the morning – kind of drifting, reading, walking down along the river, looking at photographs, or even driving around. Then, if I’m lucky, I get to work in the early afternoon, one way or another.’ – David Means

‘A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of ‘Born in the U.S.A.,’ twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it.’ – David Means

‘The Snake and Columbia river system is vital to the Pacific Northwest.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘We always had power shortages in the country. I was living right next to the border with China, and it was the only country I could compare to my own. When I looked across the river, it was a completely different world – there were no people dying. It looked like a place full of colour, and that’s what confused me.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘I was growing up in Hyesan, right by the closest North Korea-China border. China was just across the river: you could see across. So I was curious. On the river, on both sides, you have houses, then mountains. I wanted to know what was on the other side of the Chinese mountains.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘I lived near the border with China, and one night, I simply left home and walked across the iced-over river that separated the two countries. I was fortunate that my family had close relationships with some of the border guards, so I was able to cross without incident.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘The border crossing is the most dangerous moment for anyone attempting to escape. But my brother and mother had been waved off by every armed border guard along that stretch of the river.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ two years in a row in my garden in Rockland County on the Hudson River in the 1980s. I had all the actors from the Actors Studio come out, and we made our own costumes.’ – Ellen Burstyn

‘Every single time I perform ‘River,’ I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.’ – Bishop Briggs

‘Water security is not just for domestic policies. International co-operation is crucial to sustainably manage trans-boundary water bodies and river basins.’ – Jose Angel Gurria

‘I feel like ‘Harlem River’ was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and ‘Still Life’ is between Point A and Point B. It’s the grey area.’ – Kevin Morby

”Harlem River’ is about the Harlem River in uptown Manhattan. I don’t know much to say about it. I came upon that river a couple of years ago. I was doing a walk the length of Manhattan, from the top to the bottom, and I had never seen that river before.’ – Kevin Morby

”Reign’ is probably the oldest one on the record. I wrote that when I was 19. ‘The Dead They Don’t Come Back,’ which is the last song on the album, I wrote when I was 20, and ‘Harlem River’ I just wrote last year. It spans from 2007 to 2012.’ – Kevin Morby

‘I love ‘River’s Edge.” – Jon Watts

‘I often stay in Tokyo’s Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season.’ – Joe Gebbia

‘If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.’ – Blake Crouch

‘I live in a province where we have the cheapest electricity in North America – indeed, in the Western world – but all of it is perfectly renewable because we have beautiful Manitoba Hydro. Every few tens of kilometers, we can put a river dam. Bingo. One gigawatt here. One gigawatt here.’ – Vaclav Smil

‘I resisted Twitter for a long time. To me, it was synonymous with networking, which in my mind means unceasing self-promotion and superficial small-talk with strangers. A little like wading into a river with a raging current – and I’m a terrible swimmer.’ – Celeste Ng

‘I’ve certainly never liked the idea of being put in a box. I loved being part of shows like ‘American Idiot’ and ‘In the Heights,’ and I take pride in being able to sing different styles, not just ‘Old Man River.” – Joshua Henry

‘The Columbia River Basin, which spans seven states in the Pacific Northwest, is one of the largest freshwater networks in North America. For centuries, the Basin has been a catalyst for economic development through the abundance of natural resources it provides.’ – Seth Moulton

‘I row my boat on the river. I swim, ski, walk, lift weights, do yoga and Pilates. I don’t want to be a weak, sick 90-year-old.’ – Lynda Carter

‘I feel really lucky to have had ‘War and Peace’ as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great’s palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can’t believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.’ – Jessie Buckley

‘Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens of Washington State to finally have the Hanford nuclear site cleaned up. Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens along the Hudson River to fix that pollution. These are some of the most direct things we can do to benefit our environment.’ – Scott Pruitt

‘I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in ‘Big River.” – Michael Arden

‘I think it took me seven years before I got the script for ‘Frozen River.’ That’s the movie I had been looking for my whole career. When I read that, I knew I had to shoot that movie – that it’d be a game-changer. It was one of those scripts where I read it, and I was like, ‘This movie could get into Sundance.” – Reed Morano

‘When ‘Frozen River’ started to get really big, I was four months pregnant. So when these agents and directors wanted to meet me, I was coming in pregnant, and people didn’t really take me seriously. They thought, ‘This woman is not going to shoot another movie again. She’s going to become a mom, and that’s what happens.’ But that was not the case.’ – Reed Morano

‘Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having ‘Queer Eye’ in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important.’ – Jonathan Van Ness

‘We had a cabin in the mountains – and I remember, one year around this time, a moose came down the river, and one night he came to our cabin and hung out on the back porch for hours. They’re really, really, really big animals. And dangerous, especially if they’re a momma.’ – Annaleigh Ashford

‘Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.’ – Sandra Faber

‘As much as I enjoy hunting the abundant wildlife along the river bottom, my wife and I also take great pleasure in sharing the hunting opportunities on our ranch with so many from our community each year. We understand that community service and shared enjoyment of our great lands is the true Montana tradition.’ – Matt Rosendale

‘All indications are that three and a half billion years ago, Mars looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had rivers. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky. Three and a half billion years ago, it was a happening place. The same time on Earth, that’s when life started. So did life start on Mars?’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘When we were working on ‘River Ota’ in the ’90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.’ – Robert Lepage

‘I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch’s ‘Knight Crusader.” – Margaret MacMillan

‘My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It’s the river that caught on fire. We’re real good at picking real estate.’ – Rory O’Malley

‘My favorite movie is ‘Dogfight’ with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. The ending is kind of bittersweet but so real and moving and complicated.’ – Perfume Genius

‘I’m exactly where I want to be – we live out here on the James River outside Richmond. I have three ponds, and we catch the biggest, most beautiful bass you’ve ever looked at in your life.’ – Jimmy Dean

‘River is a fantastic club that goes beyond just football. They offer so many sports and activities within the club. There are schools for young players, and its DNA can be identified by every other club in Argentina.’ – Radamel Falcao

‘It’s in the DNA of River fans to prefer attractive and technical football with plenty of possession. I noticed that quickly, and I was made aware just how important that was to River fans, and so I tried to adapt with my characteristics and ability.’ – Radamel Falcao

‘I’m privileged, and I thank God for the opportunity to play for River.’ – Radamel Falcao

‘I have scored many goals with my head, ever since my time with River Plate in Argentina and then after at Porto and Atletico Madrid.’ – Radamel Falcao

‘After River was born, I remember being in the bedroom by myself, overwhelmed because he wasn’t latching well, and I yelled, ‘Dave, I need help! Can you get in here?’ Suddenly my husband, my mom, and my in-laws were all in the doorway. I just melted into tears. It really does take a village.’ – Daniela Ruah

‘With River’s birth, nothing went according to plan. My water broke three weeks early, and after 12 hours of labor and Pitocin, I was in incredible pain and still only one-centimeter dilated.’ – Daniela Ruah

‘I’m a video game enthusiast. I love video games! They were a huge part of my upbringing in their early form, when I was all about ‘Dig Dug’ and ‘River Raid.’ As they evolved, so did my music-making, and we just kind of grew up together like cool friends.’ – Deadmau5

‘To play a match between Boca and River in Madrid, it’s weird. But as a player, it is important to stay focused on the match.’ – Carlos Tevez

‘When a young person is sent ‘up the river,’ we need to remember that all rivers can change course.’ – Alan K. Simpson

‘Brazil hates me. Oh, big deal. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and walk over it.’ – Colby Covington

‘Myself and some kids on our estate became obsessed with the creation of the ultimate go-kart. This ambition culminated in the creation of a six-man super-cart, which was essentially a plank of wood with four wheels, and a failed attempt to jump a tributary of the River Severn powered only by Rex, our dog.’ – Greg Davies

‘It was pretty surreal to be auditioning as a kid, and I’d get close to these actors that I really respected. I remember River Phoenix in particular. I met him at an audition hall or something.’ – Stephen Dorff

‘I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.’ – Sandi Toksvig

‘I love Oxford Circus, so I can do Primarni, and I can do River Island and Topshop and Selfridges.’ – Michelle Visage

‘I remember specifically a couple of performances that I saw when I was young – River Phoenix in ‘Stand by Me’ and also Michael Jackson, in particular his ability to command such power and love while maintaining such deep vulnerability. It really moved my soul from a very young age.’ – Asia Kate Dillon

‘For me, India symbolises a big fire and a big river.’ – Jim Sarbh

”Mercury’ is about a big company exploiting a small town. There is a place in Tamil Nadu called Kodaikanal. It had a thermometer factory, which would dump the mercury into the river. This affected a lot of people. This incident is the inspiration for this film.’ – Karthik Subbaraj

‘Two of my dramas, ‘Unforgotten’ and ‘River,’ were airing at the same time, and Dad had read about my ‘success’ in a newspaper – he thought it was brilliant. I was thinking, ‘Does this mean I’m going to be put in a box for a bit now?” – Nicola Walker

‘I have had the fortunate privilege of serving as a state representative for residents in the great cities of Detroit, River Rouge, and Ecorse.’ – Rashida Tlaib

‘Few nations have been as reliant on nuclear power as Korea. In many ways, cheap and reliable atomic energy helped make possible the ‘miracle on the Han River’ – i.e., the swift post-World War II economic surge of Korea.’ – Stephen Moore

‘The equality of men and women is not possible because both are different. A mountain is a mountain, and a river is a river.’ – Sanjay Leela Bhansali

‘I was attracted to black music for the same reason that I loved those old Irish ballads. Both were social statements of sorts, and both were indigenous to their respective cultures: Ireland, where my father had grown up, and towns like St. Louis along the Mississippi River, where I was growing up.’ – Michael McDonald

‘Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow of the river.’ – Ilaiyaraaja

‘A stand-up act is almost like a pool. You know what I mean? It’s like a pool, and you’re always skimming little leaves out of it, messing with the chlorine level, putting up umbrellas. You’re trying to make one little stagnant body of water perfect. Whereas a late-night show is like a river, always moving forward.’ – Pete Holmes

‘There’s only one thing I love more than race day: the morning after! The morning after the Marathon, New York catches running fever. The Hudson River bike path on Manhattan’s west side was like a traffic jam of joggers on Monday morning. No doubt the great race fires up the endurance athlete in all of us – and it’s beautiful.’ – Stephanie Ruhle

‘Before you even consider making a value bet, try to determine if the bet will have any value at all. Attempt to put your opponent on a hand that he’d likely call a bet with on the river. To do this, you’ll have to mentally play back the details of the hand. Think about your opponent’s playing tendencies.’ – Daniel Negreanu

‘When you manage a big team like River Plate or Madrid, they are used to winning titles. The people are happy, but they are used to it. When you have an achievement like I had in Villarreal, reaching the semi-final of the Champions League, finishing second in the league, it’s more than winning a title. It’s more.’ – Manuel Pellegrini

‘It’s true what they say: Nothing tastes quite like the East River.’ – Jack Schlossberg

‘I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.’ – Madison Keys

‘I am at A and going all the way to Z is high unlikely in any career, let alone football. You have to weave your way like the river, pick up your skills and keep going.’ – Sean Dyche

‘Tower Bridge would make a cool house. I like the idea of living over the river.’ – Stuart Broad

‘The old Craven Cottage stadium at Fulham, before they built the river stand; that was a great place to watch football. When the football wasn’t very good, people used to turn around and watch the boats on the river.’ – Ken Loach

‘We had to recreate the banks of the river Yamuna on a studio floor. It wasn’t easy… or cheap.’ – Boney Kapoor

‘I had the benefit of going to a really good high school on Long Island. I went to Shoreham-Wading River High School, which kind of started as an experimental public school back in the 60s and 70s. It had a bunch of teachers there with a unique teaching philosophy.’ – Adam Conover

‘Wading River was a gorgeous place to grow up and I feel very lucky there was a wood by our house where I could go explore when I was a kid.’ – Adam Conover

‘Life here (in the Pacific Northwest, not in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland or the chain of buildings connecting them but in the rest of the place, out west and east from the north-south I-5 river) can sometimes feel like a half-dream, half-myth.’ – Phil Elverum

‘Most people in Georgia have a place in the hills for when it gets too hot in the city. We have good friends who own a place by a beautiful little river and the houses are full of hammocks.’ – Katie Melua

‘I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo – but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout – I’ve been pretty much addicted ever since.’ – Shannon Bream

‘After taking a retreat into the woods of the Russian River Valley to write, reflect, and commune with nature and one another, ‘Amethyst Journey’ was born. The album is a collection of songs that are a combination of our outlook and inspirations – a response to current issues and the state of our planet.’ – Alaska

‘I went to Italy as a 21-year-old when I could easily have stayed in Argentina, playing for the biggest club in the land, River Plate, and having a nice, comfortable life.’ – Hernan Crespo

‘The Indian government has been taking some lead in several environmental initiatives, like the international solar alliance, many green initiatives in schools, lots of river reservations projects.’ – Sonam Wangchuk

‘There weren’t any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields, sowing seeds, working with animals, jumping in the river, climbing trees.’ – Sonam Wangchuk

‘It’s always pretty cool to hit a card on the river, especially when you’re lucky enough to do it two days in a row. But good fortune doesn’t last forever.’ – Phil Hellmuth

‘In this great nation of saints and poets, public administrators and ingenious architects, has our national and local imagination shrunk so much that we cannot leave the last major free flowing river of peninsular India alone, for future generations to explore, enjoy and benefit from? Let the Aghanashini flow with Aviral, Nirmal Dhara.’ – Rohini Nilekani

‘Because of its gradient, it is the site of many spectacular waterfalls, like the Unchalli Falls, near which, on a full moon night in winter, you might even glimpse a moonbow – a rainbow generated from the moonlight. This is the river Aghanashini – ‘the cleanser of sins.” – Rohini Nilekani

‘By the time I was a teenager I’d decided what my son’s name would be – River.’ – Sean Murray

‘I want to make sound effects for biomes. If you’re walking along a river you hear the water, then in the forest you hear birds, but as night comes in, it becomes kind of weird, you can walk through a desert, a swamp, and the sounds merge and change with you.’ – C418

‘When I was kid I always wanted to be either the captain of the England cricket team or I wanted to be a river bailiff.’ – Chris Tarrant

‘Growing up, I remember taking trips with my family to Kentucky Lake and visiting Lake Cumberland, and camping with friends at Red River Gorge.’ – Andy Beshear

‘I ate some really amazing food in Thailand. I had river turtle, and dried rat, which was quite chewy and interesting and a bit like biltong.’ – John Torode

‘When you’ve played at a club like River, who are a massive, massive club in Argentina – and Roma, the same, in Italy – you learn how to deal with the pressure. After that, you can live with anything.’ – Erik Lamela

‘As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like ‘Charade,’ ‘Moon River,’ ‘Wine and Roses,’ ‘Dear Heart’ – they were all just themes that grew out of the picture.’ – Henry Mancini

‘The Peckman River Basin has frequently flooded, and for more than a generation, the towns of Little Falls and Woodland Park have faced these challenges largely on their own.’ – Mikie Sherrill

‘The Hudson River Tunnel is a chokepoint for the financial center – and most productive region – of the United States. It is the most heavily trafficked piece of rail in the entire country and even a partial closure will suffocate our nation’s economy.’ – Mikie Sherrill

‘I did a lot of camping in Africa, because what does it mean to go to Africa if you don’t camp along the river and see the animals come to drink at the water?’ – Jocelyn Wildenstein

‘Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don’t care if you’re picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.’ – Mike Hughes

‘I’ve got a lot of affection for the people at River and I think it’s mutual. The fans quickly understood that I came here hoping to play football.’ – David Trezeguet

‘River? They are a very strong club, and I don’t think there would be many players that would reject the opportunity to play there.’ – David Trezeguet

‘Playing at River is a unique experience for any player.’ – David Trezeguet

‘We will protect Punjab’s right over its river waters and fight hard to get back Chandigarh and Punjabi-speaking areas.’ – Gurpreet Ghuggi

‘Gus van Sant I met at the Berlin film festival, and he came up to me. He had a little film in the festival called ‘Mala Noche’ that he had made for $20,000. He said: ‘You are one of my favourite actors. I’m doing ‘My Own Private Idaho’ with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. You should be in it!’ Then I started working with Gus.’ – Udo Kier

‘Broken Clocks’ is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.’ – Frank Dukes

”As The River Flows’ is an important Assamese film with a message for everybody to ponder upon.’ – Victor Banerjee

‘Hapy, the ancient god of the Nile, depicted at Dendera with Cleopatra, is typically shown with breasts – symbolism that demonstrated how the life-giving gifts of Egypt’s river artery come only when the power of both female and male was combined.’ – Bettany Hughes

‘The ‘River Monsters’ episodes acted a bit like a whodunit – there was a crime scene, maybe someone had been pulled under, and we had to find out what happened.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘With ‘River Monsters,’ it sometimes didn’t matter if the story was made up or exaggerated.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘Normally, you want the river when the water is low and not when it’s flooded. For example, there are parts of the Amazon where the water goes up to 15 meters high. This floods the forest, so a lot of the fish that normally stay close together are suddenly very hard to find.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘I have caught eels from Loch Ness, as we did a River Monsters episode which started off there. They weren’t very big – just 18 inches. I’m sure there may be bigger eels, but you’re only talking about 10lbs.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘A river without monsters is a scarier prospect because it means the water is unhealthy.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘The worst thing that happened when filming ‘River Monsters’ was the time when our sound recordist was hit by lightning.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘Being out on the water, you’re very exposed. In the Amazon, one cause of death that’s not uncommon is getting caught out in a storm. What people sometimes do is, they’re out in the middle of the river, and the storm comes, so they go into the side of the river and a tree falls on top of them.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘The most fascinating and satisfying encounter so far was the goliath tigerfish of the Congo. I first caught one in 1991, and then again while filming the second season of ‘River Monsters’ in 2009. Its appearance is quite unbelievable, like a giant piranha, with inch-long interlocking teeth.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘The ‘Amazon Nessie’ turned out to be a malformed pink river dolphin, so not a fish, although quite fish-like in appearance.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘The Tyne is at the bottom of my garden. When the river came up 16ft, 7ft of that went through my home. There wasnt only salmon in the Tyne – my three-piece suite was in there too. I had to be rescued. It was a year-and-a-half before we could move back in.’ – Robson Green

‘It’s essential I look after myself, because of what I put my body through in stunts as an actor, and even more through the fishing journeys. Trekking through jungles is tough. We don’t escape to hotels and if I’m living with tribes on the bank of a river, I camp out under a canopy or kip in a canoe.’ – Robson Green

‘If I say Im living with tribes on the bank of a river to fish, Im doing it. I dont wash or shave, I end up quite smelly and growing a beard but inside you have immense inner peace.’ – Robson Green

‘I’m finally living the way I always thought people in New York were supposed to live. I have a bright, sun-filled lovely apartment on the 24th floor with a view of the river and the city. Most of all, I’m happy.’ – Divine

‘Our roads, bridges, airports, railways, and river ports are our outlets to expand Missouri business, generate future growth, and expand to new emerging markets across the globe.’ – Mike Parson

‘When the Islamic State attacked Christian villages in the Khabur River Valley of eastern Syria in early 2015, it was our airstrikes, guided by information provided by local Christian communities, that stopped the terrorists’ advance.’ – Tom Malinowski

‘Labour has sold working class Britons down the river. Meanwhile, the Tories are now beating us black and blue in a dark alley.’ – Bez

‘Australians do love a good food festival. From regional gems like The Taste of Tasmania to Margaret River Gourmet Escape, diehard eaters have a litany of opportunities to revel in Australia’s great produce and chow down on food made by some of the brightest culinary talent from here and abroad.’ – Melissa Leong

‘I don’t want to sound like anyone else, I wanted to be in my own creative space and find this river of melody myself.’ – Thomas Grennan

‘Coal ash gets far less attention than toxic and greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, but it has created environmental and health problems – every major river in the Southeast has at least one coal ash pond – and continuing legal troubles and large cleanup costs for the authority and other utilities.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘I can sit on a boat or a river bank and problems that seemed insurmountable just don’t seem that important anymore.’ – Van Heflin

‘From September 1914 to August 1918, four major battles were fought along the banks of the River Somme in the region of Picardy, France. These included the 1916 Battle of the Somme, intended to drive the Germans out of France.’ – Carol Drinkwater

‘The pollution that flows from the Tijuana River Valley into the Pacific Ocean threatens San Diego’s environment.’ – Kevin Faulconer

‘I want you to feel in ‘Riversong’ like you’re floating down a river on your back, and you’re looking at the stars, and everything is incredibly still and peaceful.’ – Alison Sudol

‘As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I reached across the aisle to write an economic development bill that addressed poverty in an area stretching from the Mississippi Delta northward all along the Mississippi River – where Americans suffered from low wages, high unemployment, generational poverty, and low educational attainment.’ – Mike Espy

‘It’s good to treat life like a party when it comes to something as huge as ‘Drag Race.’ So many girls are selling their mothers up the river to get on this show, and it’s important to just really have fun with it. We’re all men in dresses, this is a party, this is a celebration – don’t lose sight of that. That’s just my whole take on it.’ – Adore Delano

‘I used to work in a lumberyard and that’s where I first heard a number on a jukebox and I liked it. It was a piano number. It was called ‘Swanee River Boogie’ by Albert Ammonds.’ – Fats Domino

‘There is always something magical about being on a river as evening falls. Nature begins to come a bit alive. But I get to the point where I want to get to the pub.’ – Paul Whitehouse

‘There’s nothing better than going down the lawn to the river for a few hours in the evening and catching your own supper.’ – Paul Whitehouse

‘The first time we went fishing together was not long after Bob had his heart surgery in 2015. His treatment had been significantly worse than expected, but I badgered him to come out fishing at Stockbridge on the River Test.’ – Paul Whitehouse

‘The Massachusetts Fourth, from Fall River to Brookline, is a powerhouse of talent and work ethic.’ – Jake Auchincloss

‘I learnt horse-riding, have practiced running around on boulders, jumping in a river with stones on the riverbed and wading through mud.’ – Sargun Mehta

‘In Porto it’s a tourist city. It’s close to the river, the ocean as well, there’s a lot of history.’ – Diogo Jota

‘What I witnessed on our southern border was simultaneously heartbreaking and infuriating. We saw military-aged males crossing the river in broad daylight – right in front of us – while we were there talking with Border Patrol.’ – John E. James

‘You have to go to the gym; you have to learn how to swim. The craft of acting is learning the lines and everything, however, if you jump into the river and you drown, whose fault is that? It’s not the river’s fault. You’ve got to learn your craft before you jump in that river.’ – Paul Raci