River Quotes · Page 59

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

— Anne Carson

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

— Chief Joseph

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

— Tom Robbins

We don't have the power to control the Winds but we have the power to adjust the sails.

— Anonymous

A ship's not a ship to me 'til she gets her teeth into green water.

— Anonymous

“Safe harbors were for old men and little children. Life was lived on the open sea.”

— Anonymous

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

— Rumi

“The flies buzzed in answer above the dirty water standing in the washbasin, in which floated a solitary black hair. It, too,…

— Stella Gibbons

“The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to…

— Scott Turow

“If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction a delta springing from the…

— Adrienne Rich

“Loving the lost leads you into arctic sea's. By day you may find calming waves. But by night you fight ice berg's,…

— Zachary Koukol

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Water never stops moving. Rain falls, and runs down a mountain into a river. The river finds its way to the ocean.…

— Jodi Picoult

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life,…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he's the kind of leader…

— Ehud Barak

I was attracted to black music for the same reason that I loved those old Irish ballads. Both were social statements of…

— Michael McDonald

“But you cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Indeed, you cannot grasp it, just…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Listen, Miss, boats are supposed to float. Even if they break up, they usually still float and show up on a shore…

— Cathy Ostlere

A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“our relationship with water. Several years ago I came up with a name for this human–water connection: Blue Mind, a mildly meditative…

— Anonymous

“Man, he lives in the jerks-- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk-- gets a farm an' loses his…

— John Steinbeck

To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something…

— David Quammen

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

— John Hope

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Rumi

“The amazing thing about water drops is that they always take the path of least resistance For humans it’s the exact opposite”

— Steve Rhodes

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.

— Elliot Johnson

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

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice.”

— Kamal Ravikant

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

— Haruki Murakami

All relation(ships) have problems…Some relation(ships) sink, Ships Sink, But you have the choice to wear a safety jacket.

— Taylor-Danielle

“My thoughts, my dreams, they had been nothing in comparison. They were a single drop of water, and this, the whole sea.”

— J.M. Miller

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

— John Dryden

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

— Robert Ballard

Tower Bridge would make a cool house. I like the idea of living over the river.

— Stuart Broad

“It rolls the mid-most waters of the world, the Indian Ocean and Atlantic being just its arms.”

— Herman Melville

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

— R. Buckminster Fuller