Rivers Quotes

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

Shall we gather at the river, Where bright angel feet have trod; With its crystal tide for ever, Flowing by the throne of God?

O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow.

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!

Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

Don't try to steer the river.

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.

I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.

That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood.

A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.

I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)

Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.