Rivers Quotes

One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

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

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

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

Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner!

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.

Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the ocean.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Have a goal in life. When water is everywhere, it is a flood, but if it is in between banks, it is a river. It is nice to have a goal, so your life force gets channelized!

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

You cannot lose what you never had.

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

Time is a river, and books are boats.

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.