Rivers Quotes

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

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

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

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

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.

And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.

The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river.

Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.

Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

I am haunted by waters.