Rivers Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

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)

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on.

James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize" Wulfgar

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.

We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

Love without trust is a river without water.

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it.

Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.