River Quotes · Page 61

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the river.”

— Amit Ray

The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]

— Blaise Pascal

“They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time.”

— Laurie Gough

“There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion.”

— Agatha Christie

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.

— Jules Verne

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

— Philip Pullman

Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go…

— Katherine Mansfield

“It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you…

— Wally Lamb

“To make the sea your own, to watch over it, to brood your very soul into it, to accept it and love…

— Jack Kerouac

“Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river.…

— Charles Martin

“The boat—no, it was a ship, as one of the crew had explained, since it had a solid superstructure and was stabilized…

— Jack L. Chalker

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle…

— James Houston

I've always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a…

— Kevin Spacey

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific…

— Noel Fisher

“The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that…

— Rebecca Solnit

It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place…

— Matthew Fontaine Maury

Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush…

— Tom Robbins

The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this…

— Wendell Berry

“In my mind the river flows both ways. Forward, to the explanation of things; to a destination which will justify the agonies…

— Clive Barker

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there…

— Jean Rhys

I know exactly what my songs are about and I try not to tell people, because a friend of mine really loves…

— Aldous Harding

The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I meander and wander, like a lazy river. Gosh, why are some rivers so damn lazy? What, are they teenagers?”

— Jarod Kintz

I'm privileged, and I thank God for the opportunity to play for River.

— Radamel Falcao

You can never discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

— Senora Roy

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder

— Alan Shepard

I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That's what I really wanna…

— Billy Magnussen

“There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the…

— K.M. Douglas

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

— Dan Aykroyd

A 150 foot yacht quickly becomes very small when you are out to sea and someone goes bonkers, for whatever reason.

— Sonja Morgan

You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

— Bette Davis

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

— Walter J. Phillips

“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you are everything that exists; the reality of everything." V.W”

— Rebecca Addison

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

— Robert Jordan

“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason.”

— William Shakespeare

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

— Antonio Machado

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

— Norman Maclean