Rivers Quotes

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.

If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.

That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.

We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.

The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.

Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being.

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we'll reunite for all eternity.

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.

I've always felt somewhat out of place with other kids my own age", said River. "I was constantly reminded by people's reaction to our names and our diet that we seemed weird to them.

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

Love is the river of life in this world.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

There is another alphabet Whispering from every leaf, Singing from every river, Shimmering from every sky.

There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.