Rivers Quotes

And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.

There are places I don't want to go. Making movies on tops of mountains, in the desert, playing scenes while icy torrents of rivers rush by. The jungle. It's very uncomfortable.

The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.

Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.

The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.

I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into a river.

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

What if River Phoenix had lived?

I don't mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast.

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

I leaned back against him and rested my cheek on his shoulder. I could feel the river water dripping off of him. "Thank you" I whispered. When I looked up, I saw he was crying.

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.

A river of words flowed between us.

All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.

Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

"If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire, my dear friend, some fire!"

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it's neither dark nor light, and the sunrises are the moments of transition.

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.

Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.

Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

Rivers neede a spring.

A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.