Quotes About River Pollution

#1. These things don't fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It's just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human - and maybe to help myself and others feel a teeny bit better.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#2. I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

Gore Vidal

#3. And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agnostic could have walked across it. It was hard to drown in the Ankh, but easy to suffocate.

Terry Pratchett

#4. When you didn't have the ocean or mountain to keep you busy, he supposed you hurled pumpkins.

G.P. Ching

#5. cannot be called talent to slay fellow-citizens, to deceive friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; such methods may gain empire, but not glory.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#6. He dreamed at one point in his slumbers of New York. In his dream he was walking late at night along the East Side, beside the river which had become so extravagantly polluted that new lifeforms were now emerging from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting rights.

Douglas Adams

#7. And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.

Bill Lambrecht

#9. You have to act and act now.

Larry Ellison

#10. The great are like the sun; even when hidden from the world they still shine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Even if you were casted in Gold, it would not reflect your true value to me

Rick Ferreira

#12. The Hittites believed that evil spirits lurked around every corner and sought to pollute the living spiritually and physically, and that death carried the greatest risk of pollution to those who touched the corpse

Charles River Editors