Quotes About The Columbia River

#1. I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

Mark Helprin

#2. 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

#3. Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction ... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.

David L. Ulin

#4. 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

#5. Life is happy when u make it. Its boring when u hate it

Sreeja Pai

#6. We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.

James Dyson

#7. But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live

Daniel Quinn

#8. Chaos is an excuse for people who don't have the patience to see the patterns.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#9. The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share. No, but to be admired by Posterity -- people they've never met and never will -- that's what they set their hearts on. You might as well be upset at not being a hero to your great-grandfather.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

Woody Guthrie