Rivers Quotes · Page 14

A good river is nature's life work in song.

— Mark Helprin

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

— Laozi

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

— Cordell Hull

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

— Kathy Mattea

the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

— Anaximenes of Miletus

Never make the first move." - Loor (The Rivers of Zadaa)

— Anonymous

before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

— Kobayashi Issa

“My love is such that rivers cannot quench”

— Anne Bradstreet

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

— Jim Gerlach

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the…

— D.T. Suzuki

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

— Shozo Tanaka

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

— Ruta Sepetys

Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.

— Ming-Dao Deng

Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish…

— Sharon Gannon

You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream.

— Donald Keough

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.

— Heraclitus

I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I…

— Susan Sullivan

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap…

— Ed Zern

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were…

— David Hockney

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how…

— Boris Pasternak

A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost…

— David Lubar

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.…

— Anonymous

Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing…

— Bill Gates

Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that…

— Michelle Paver

And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.…

— Wendell Berry

My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during…

— Sam Shepard

When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about.…

— David Sedaris

Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never paid dividends. Never wory about the fellow ahead of you. If you start racing to get…

— Ray Bergman

The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me…

— Thomas Hardy

I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our…

— Edward Norton

There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor…

— Jules Verne

Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him…

— Truman Capote

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.

— Rumi

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

— Langston Hughes

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

— Hermann Hesse

A river without banks is a large puddle.

— Ken Blanchard

I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.

— John B. S. Haldane

The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for…

— Christopher Camuto

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

— Sun Tzu

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step…

— Anonymous