River Quotes · Page 76

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

— Epictetus

If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.

— Carol Plum-Ucci

“My whole life seemed to spill out into the river, swirling away from me, everything I had ever been or ever wanted…

— Tim O'Brien

“the river Ankh, a waterway so muddy that it looks as if it is flowing upside down.”

— Terry Pratchett

Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.

— Bishop Briggs

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

— Anne Carson

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

— Chief Joseph

“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the…

— Heidi Baker

I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to…

— Craig T. Nelson

We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday…

— Yoko Ono

“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that…

— Marianne Moore

I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I've also always wanted to…

— Antony Gormley

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I was looking at buying a home when I lived in Florida in 2009. I was looking at homes next to the…

— Steven Magee

In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and…

— Nick Flynn

You can't control the weather, but there are definitely things you can do to protect yourself and the investment you've made in…

— Scott Hall

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and…

— Norman Maclean

The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is…

— T. S. Eliot

“Two waves in the ocean are talking to each other. The front wave tells the second that it's frightened because it is…

— Daniel Gottlieb

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so…

— Ron Kind

While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the…

— Tom Brokaw

My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They…

— Jane Pauley

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

— Seneca the Elder

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice.”

— Kamal Ravikant

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

— Haruki Murakami

All relation(ships) have problems…Some relation(ships) sink, Ships Sink, But you have the choice to wear a safety jacket.

— Taylor-Danielle

“My thoughts, my dreams, they had been nothing in comparison. They were a single drop of water, and this, the whole sea.”

— J.M. Miller

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

— John Dryden

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

— Robert Ballard

Tower Bridge would make a cool house. I like the idea of living over the river.

— Stuart Broad

“It rolls the mid-most waters of the world, the Indian Ocean and Atlantic being just its arms.”

— Herman Melville

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

— Gloria Steinem

“The amazing thing about water drops is that they always take the path of least resistance For humans it’s the exact opposite”

— Steve Rhodes

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him…

— Rumi

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.

— Elliot Johnson

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

.. an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.

— Anonymous