River Quotes

Loose lips sink ships.

— Anonymous

“snorkel fin bog water”

— Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench

The wake doesn't drive the ship

— Alan Watts

“Every drop makes a ripple...”

— Kern Carter

Put your circuits in the sea

— MGMT

“river of souls,”

— Zoraida Córdova

Searching in Dark waters.?

— Jade

“Ships have feelings.”

— Ann Leckie

Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.

— Thomas Hood

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.

— Jim Steinman

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

— John Florio

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

— Cato the Younger

Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.

— Paulo Coelho

The water is the same on both sides of the boat.

— Finnish Proverb

The true ship is the ship builder.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

— Publilius Syrus

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

— Lucretius

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

— Terry Pratchett

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

— Barry Lopez

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

— Eyvind Kang

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

— William James

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

— Hermann Broch

There is no use of spreading the net in the river where there is no fish.

— Vikrant Parsai

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all…

— Norman Lear

“Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless…

— Gene Wolfe

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away…

— Shimon Peres

Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the…

— David Foreman

“Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have…

— Joyce Rachelle

“In a river, the water flows more slowly near the banks and faster in the middle but it still flows. So forget…

— Soroosh Shahrivar

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the…

— Victor Hugo

“Don’t forget that the boat and the water are in love with each other; you should never let them on their own;…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and…

— Joseph Conrad

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel…

— Billy Campbell

I was on the Mekong River between the border of Thailand and Laos. I was there to find the elusive Mekong giant…

— Jeremy Wade

We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the…

— Otto Neurath

He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to…

— John Armstrong

“There were several completely mysterious electrical devices connected with the washstand, and the water valve did not cut off when you released…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that…

— Aaron Swartz

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can…

— Mary Oliver