River Quotes · Page 77

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

— Seth Godin

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

— Gautama Buddha

The music like the sea, but there's only a few people can swim, and recognize how to Plunge with the wave sound

— Black Son Beats

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean,…

— Mother Teresa

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

— Alain-Rene Lesage

“You have to be the right type for calm waters. For some, dead calm is inner peace, for others it's the doldrums.”

— Daniel Glattauer

“One Drop of water makes an ocean while all the books in the world make up all the knowledge in it too.”

— Gabriella Goren

“For sailors with a desire for wind, memory is a good port of departure.”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities…

— Soichiro Honda

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw…

— Richard Dean Anderson

“As we ate, I watched the waves crashing and thought about the erosion, the turning of rock into sand, and how long…

— Wendy Blackburn

“I understand. There are rivers and tides everywhere, I suppose, real and otherwise. Their business is to carry along anyone who’s too…

— Lena Manta

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would…

— Laozi

Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source…

— Nicola Salvi

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has…

— Alan Villiers

There's a time when the sea gets rough the wind is blowing and the fishes keep movin. What are you doing mister…

— Freddie Mcgregor

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels…

— Epes Sargent

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Brazil hates me. Oh, big deal. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and walk over it.

— Colby Covington

“Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans. Mahmûd Shabistarî”

— Mahmud Shabistari

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

— Anonymous

“Learn from the ocean; not fearing turbulence, it uses the wind against it to rise instead.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.”

— Lin Pardey

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

— Grace Hopper

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

— Mark Twain

You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.

— John Assaraf

“Ships are safe at Harbor, but that's what they aren't meant for.”

— Anonymous

Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

“Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard.”

— George R.R. Martin

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

— Robert Montgomery

Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

— Jaimal Yogis

“When you sail, don't Pull up the anchor weeping. Be a man, do it laughing...”

— Shūsaku Endō

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around…

— Marcus Aurelius

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

— Baron de Montesquieu

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.”

— René Char

“You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

— Blaise Pascal

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

— William Faulkner

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

— Robert Browning