Rivers Quotes · Page 33

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

— Thomas McGuane

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Gautama Buddha

A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.

— James R. Swartz

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a…

— Eugene Field

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

— Alain-Rene Lesage

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

— John Gierach

A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.

— Matthew Arnold

At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the…

— Deepak Chopra

The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a…

— Kekla Magoon

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly…

— Anonymous

Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a…

— John Stephens

I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I…

— Justin Trudeau

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter…

— Rachel Carson

I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord,…

— Christopher Camuto

See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more…

— Lucretius

What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved,…

— Rajneesh

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful." She leaned forward and touched…

— Cassandra Clare

(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is,…

— Russell Chatham

Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's…

— Veena Sud

Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. He was so…

— Christopher Paolini

Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are…

— John Flavel

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

— Thomas McGuane

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

— John Dryden

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Rumi

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

— William Shakespeare

“There are many rivers that we cross in our lifetime, unfortunately some of those rivers just don't have bridges.”

— John R. Gouin

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude…

— Hans Blix

Trains are wonderful… To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to…

— Agatha Christie

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

— Carol Plum-Ucci

“If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.”

— Francine Rivers

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

— Zhuangzi

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

— Henry James

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

— Chief Joseph