Riverfront Quotes & Sayings

With my feet upon the ground, I lose myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in; I feel it move across my skin. Reaching up and reaching out, I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me. Following our will and wind, we may just go where no one's been. Let's ride the spiral to the end, we may just go where no one's been ... — Tool

The pioneers and their new Indian partners amply displayed the American penchant for technological prowess, developing shore-to-shore windlasses and flatboat ferries to cross the rivers, innovations as vital to the country's progress as the steam engine and the telegraph. America's default toward massive waste and environmental havoc was also, and hilariously, perfected along the trail. Scammed by the merchants of Independence and St. Joe into overloading their wagons, the pioneers jettisoned thousands of tons of excess gear, food, and even pianos along the ruts, turning vast riverfront regions of the West into America's first and largest Superfund sites. On issue after issue - disease, religious strife, the fierce competition for water - the trail served as an incubator for conflicts that would continue to reverberate through American culture until our own day. — Rinker Buck

For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind. — Nancy B. Brewer

I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive. — Gideon Glick

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone. — Walter Bagehot

Trying to tell you I'm the one, come and holla at me before I'm on the next thing, YMCMB. — Drake

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up. — Jayne Mansfield

On the riverfront thoroughfare, trams and buses roared past, grounding the day in the twenty-first century, but on the quieter lanes, the wintry peace might have hailed from another time. — Laini Taylor

I still think too much about the mothers And ask what is man born of woman. He curls himself up and protects his head While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running, He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit. Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy. — Czeslaw Milosz

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience. — Joshua Leonard

Everything you saw was real, Sophia. I'm a lot of things, things that might not be easy to understand, but I'm also the same man I was a few days ago. The man who danced with you and held you and felt so impossibly lucky to wake up next to you. The man who thinks he's falling in love with you. — Maya Cross

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. — Adrienne Rich

If you say that you have never lied at all,
then you give too much trust on anybody. — Toba Beta