Rivers Quotes

Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.

Would you care to walk to the river?” -Miles “I would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

An ocean refuses no river.

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

Insanity makes the rivers flow.

They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.

Rivers of tear drops, these sharp pains in my heart, if this was the way that you love, you never should have loved me

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.

You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered.

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders

We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.

If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge.

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.