Riverbanks Quotes

#1. I spent my days on the riverbanks, in the woods, in the fields, shooting, hunting and stalking. I unravelled everything within my life. Self discovery is most important to me.

Marco Pierre White

#2. I was the feral, mud-bathing, tree-climbing variety of child. Why would I want to read about pirates when I could build a raft and terrorise sheep along the riverbanks?

Sarah Hall

#3. Not all events are stories.

Scarlett Thomas

#4. iridium is one of the three heaviest (densest) elements on the Table - two cubic feet of it weighs as much as a Buick, which makes iridium one of the world's best paperweights, able to defy all known office fans.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. Overcoming negative experiences defines character and increases wisdom.

Kamil Ali

#6. One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Just like a flower, enjoy the joy of giving.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

Alexandre Dumas

#9. We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. They glowed in the darkness, all of them: pale shining wisps with rings of light where their eyes belonged, as if they were the dead - ghosts risen from their graves - not Gilbert Cline. Harper felt their grief as a slow current of cold water, and herself as a leaf revolving upon it. As

Joe Hill

#11. Lift the demands of time pressure, though, and some of the true power of human cognition becomes evident. Given the opportunity, we often behave in a decidedly off-line way: stepping back, observing, assessing, planning, and only then taking action. It

Anonymous

#12. It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#13. As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Arnold J. Toynbee