Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash. — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
“a boat, even a wrecked and wretched boat still has all the possibilities of moving” — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source. — Clarence H. Burns Copy Share Image
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. — William Falconer Copy Share Image
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light,… — Jennifer Warnes Copy Share Image
'The River Wild' was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
Nature … is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it… — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
When the Islamic State attacked Christian villages in the Khabur River Valley of eastern Syria in early 2015, it was our airstrikes,… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
Nature's Moods The water is always changing and whenever you look at it you get something back. I'm sure the water isn't… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
“If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“One cannot know the rivers till one has seen them at their sources; but this journey to sources is not to be… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“I carry it all with me, in the quiet pools and strong currents of my being. I fill my hands with the… — Kim Barnes Copy Share Image
“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble… — William Faulkner - Absalom Absalom Copy Share Image
The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
“During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most… — Elisabeth Beazley Copy Share Image
“The Los Angeles River is small, but mean. People who don't know the truth of it make fun of our river; all… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them. — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“What is it that brings me here to stand like a rock in this river of sound?” — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God. – Psalm 46:4” — Robert J. Morgan Copy Share Image
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
