Rivers Quotes · Page 34

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

— Leigh Hunt

The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.

— John Gierach

If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for…

— Hal Borland

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

— Emile Hirsch

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

— Indira Gandhi

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

— Albert Schweitzer

That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas &…

— Rick Riordan

So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light,…

— Ted Hughes

Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books…

— Arthur Ransome

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This…

— Edward de Bono

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it…

— Kenneth Grahame

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be…

— Garth Brooks

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream…

— Cyril Connolly

Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so…

— Fred Small

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest,…

— Walter Scott

The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten:…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out…

— Pat Conroy

“The baking wind tore at his hat and he held it by the brim with one hand. It relieved him to look…

— Paulette Jiles

The great river follows its own course before joining the vast sea. Likewise, the soul follows equally varied routes and passes through…

— Andre Luiz Moreira

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a…

— Bill Gates

I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my…

— Lucy Larcom

Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters…

— Leonard Cohen

You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they…

— Utah Phillips

My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition,…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

— Arthur Ransome

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

— Barry Goldwater

Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.

— Jay Mohr

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing…

— Frederick Marryat

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

— Charles Baudelaire

If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by…

— Jan Erik Vold

Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

— Khalil Gibran

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

— Doris Lessing

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.

— George Herbert

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

— Euripides

You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.

— David Wroblewski

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

— Rabindranath Tagore

For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.

— Ilya Kabakov

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

— Bill Gates