Rivers Quotes

We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into a singular river.

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.

Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

Be a river - not a reservoir.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

Fire on anything that moves on the river.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.

We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.

The rapids beat below the boat Deep in the heart of the land Feel the pulse of the river in the pulse at your throat Deep in the heart of the land.

Can't tell if I've got rivers or veins running under my skin, flowing out over the plains.

I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining, the rivers will stop flowing, we will enter an ice age.

Days and rivers are the same; they both flow to the unknown oceans!

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.