Rivers Quotes

All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!

I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.

After an exhilarating whitewater ride through America's love-hate relationship with its rivers, Daniel McCool leaves us inspired and hopeful for a happy ending.

It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity.

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.

The only water in the forest is the River.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

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.

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.

Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.

Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

Laugh out, O stream, from your bed of green, / Where you lie in the sun's embrace; / And talk to the reeds that o'er you lean / To touch your dimpled face.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

A river reaches places its source never knows.

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

Only the river is free, always changing but always the same.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.

A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers.