River Quotes · Page 52

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

— Margaret Atwood

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

— George Eliot

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

— Raymond Carver

“The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.”

— Matthew Norman 2

You cannot sail for other islands until you are willing to lose sight of your own shore.

— Anonymous

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

— Tony Robbins

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from…

— John Joly

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must…

— Albert Schweitzer

Life here (in the Pacific Northwest, not in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland or the chain of buildings connecting them but in the rest…

— Phil Elverum

“The river rises, flows over its banks and carries us all away, like mayflies floating downstream: they stare at the sun, then…

— Stephen Mitchell

“If love was a river, then Martha's was the Nile: enormous, life-giving, and at regular intervals capable of drowning you in murk…

— Nan Willard Cappo

“I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find…

— William Shakespeare

I like to be able to go out to dinner once in a while. I like to be able to drive my…

— Steve Prefontaine

But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight,…

— Herman Melville

“The baking wind tore at his hat and he held it by the brim with one hand. It relieved him to look…

— Paulette Jiles

“Once there was a man who filmed his vacation./He went flying down the river in his boat/with his video camera to his…

— Wendell Berry

People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair,…

— Ann Brashares

“Here on the river I have known peace and beauty such as I never knew in any other place. There is always…

— Wendell Berry

“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense…

— Jules Verne

“It’s easy to see how disgruntled sailors might start to wonder if their rum had been diluted a little too much. They…

— Amy Stewart

I was searching for a way to demonstrate 3D movement to my students and one day found myself staring into the River…

— Erno Rubik

A river without monsters is a scarier prospect because it means the water is unhealthy.

— Jeremy Wade

“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.”

— Sanober Khan

“The river that never run Dry, always have a generous amend to flourish”

— Bobby Vj

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

— James F. Cooper

“I hate when people say primitive people didn’t even have running water. What do they call rivers?”

— Jarod Kintz

The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

— Abby Sunderland

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

— Bertolt Brecht

From the river to the bank lock dung. Them nuh know which part mi turn.

— Mavado

The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.

— Swami Prabhavananda

The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.

— Ramakrishna

“The ocean will swallow you whole and burp you out and not notice you were even there.”

— Nicola Yoon

Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

— Rumi

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

— Ramakrishna

“Remember, Mother, it is always the seventh wave that goes farthest up the beach.”

— Rudyard Kipling

A ship is safe in harbour but thats not what ships are for... Risks always makes a man perfect.. XD

— Innocent_me

“Hold these wires and make sure they don't touch." "What happens if they touch?" "The ship will probably self-destruct.”

— Marissa Meyer