Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author “In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.” Ideas Order Rivers ♥ 3
Ovid Poet “Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.” Rivers Flow Fleeting ♥ 3
Ovid Poet “The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.” Rivers Force Splits ♥ 3
GH Gene Hill Writer “When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.” Fall Rivers ♥ 3
Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist “This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.” Soul Religion Rivers ♥ 3
FK Florence King Author “There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.” Rivers Feminist Feminism ♥ 3
Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman “For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.” Rain Garden Rivers ♥ 3
Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author “We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.” Order Water Rivers ♥ 3
Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor “Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.” Events Rivers Violent ♥ 3
