Rivers Quotes

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

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.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

Be wild; that is how to clear the river.

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

We've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.

I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!

Dripping water hollows out a stone

True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

Stars do not struggle to shine, rivers do not struggle to flow, and you will never struggle to excel in life because of the power of your passion.

Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Deep rivers run quiet.

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.

First off, I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.