River Quotes · Page 79

I think a high tide raises all ships. I think when you win, it elevates everybody.

— Gardner Minshew

“Christopher Columbus said we cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.”

— Anonymous

In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!

— Steven Tyler

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

— Rumi

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

— Swami Satchidananda

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

— Susan Glaspell

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

— Melody Carlson

“...you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed...”

— John Geddes

“You should not interfere with the flow of water. It flows by itself; no one will stop in that flow. If one…

— Dada Bhagwan

“There’s a saying about how the Irish ship captain located all the rocks in the harbor—using the bottom of his boat. Whatever…

— Ryan Holiday

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

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

— Henry Williamson

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

— William James

You cannot cross the ocean with the stillness of your emotions...

— Nishant Grover

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

— Herman Melville

Oceans, in their beauty and mystery, unite human beings whatever their situation, nationality, or faith.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

— John Masefield

The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end…

— Anonymous

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

— Larry Osborne

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

— Jerry Costello

“Being a sea gypsy means going with the seas, winds and currents, not fighting them”

— Rick Page

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

— Karl von Frisch

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water!

— Groucho Marx

There's giant waves in numerous occasions around the world, it's a matter of the wind being offshore.

— Garrett McNamara

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

— Anonymous

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

— Saadi

I can turn a river into a ragin' fire, I could live forever if I so desired.

— The Temptations

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

— Sandra Faber

“A business is like a boat floating on the ocean, with currents moving it one way and the wind blowing it another.”

— Matt Watkinson

“Life is such a journey on a sea of constant waves and splashing desires.”

— Nadina Boun

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

— Euripides

“There is abundance of opportunity for the man who will go with the tide, instead of trying to swim against it.”

— Everte Farnell

“What a number of things a river does, by simply following Gravity in the innocence of its heart!”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

He wants me to be steady...like the river." (two otters pop up from the water) "But it's not steady at all! -Pocahontas

— Pocahontas