Rivers Quotes

...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.

I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.

Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .

The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

I used to waterski on the Niagara River.

Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?

As he left to answer the call, she heard him exclaiming in wonderment on the rise. "Rocks, Nash. Is that a river mare out there? Do you see her? Have you ever laid eyes on a more gorgeous creature?

Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.

When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.

There are many names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.

She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you.

Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!

When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.

In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!

Wise man and river; they both create new paths!

Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now.