River Quotes · Page 62

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

— Andre Maurois

“Well, like there's no river without a bend, there's no life without its unhappiness.”

— Dương Thu Hương

The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

— Albert Camus

“I'm standing in a river. It's blue. Dark blue. Reflecting the color of the evening sky.”

— Ally Condie

The worst thing that happened when filming 'River Monsters' was the time when our sound recordist was hit by lightning.

— Jeremy Wade

“Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive And that’s what makes the calm sea alive”

— Munia Khan

“As it was, then again it will be; though the course may change sometimes, rivers always lead to the sea.”

— Led Zeppelin

People are always like, 'Oh, 'Jurassic Park' is on...' or 'Oh, 'The River Wild' is on...' I actually haven't seen any of…

— Joseph Mazzello

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably…

— Nina Easton

The Peckman River Basin has frequently flooded, and for more than a generation, the towns of Little Falls and Woodland Park have…

— Mikie Sherrill

“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground…

— Vera Nazarian

Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As…

— Frederick Lenz

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and…

— James Taylor

The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded…

— Henry Williamson

“SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF IN A CHRONICALLY LEAKING BOAT, ENERGY DEVOTED TO CHANGING VESSELS IS LIKELY TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN ENERGY…

— Warren Buffett

Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk…

— Jimmy Cliff

Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River…

— Tina Brown

Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on…

— James G. Frazer

“When a pebble falls down a well, it is gratifying to hear the eventual plunk. If, however, the pebble only slips into…

— Mark Z. Danielewski's

“Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people…

— Erik Pevernagie

[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the…

— Marya Mannes

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

— Jon J Muth

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

— Paulo Coelho

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an…

— Patrick Ness

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

— Junipero Serra

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,

— Bashar al-Assad

We do not step in the same river twice, for the waters have moved on and we too have changed.

— Heraclitus

Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic…

— Pierce Brosnan

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

— Sam Cooke

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

— Hermann Hesse

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.”

— Jane Smiley

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to…

— Khalil Gibran

“You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.

— Kelli O'Hara

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

— Roy Barnes

The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.

— Felix Riesenberg