River Quotes · Page 62

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

— Elizabeth Hay

“He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.”

— Thomas Fuller

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Come ye trials and challanges; come life's big waves, for I am ready?

— Mas Oyama

“Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Though the harbor is safe, ships were made to sail the sea. The same can be said for you and me.”

— Julie-Anne

“It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.”

— Carol Bly

“Three hundred feet down, seawater slams through a two-inch hole with enough force to bend a knee the way knees don’t bend.”

— Mary Roach

Life is a river. It just keeps going on and on. You always think its so small, but the it opens up…

— Charlie

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes…

— Haruki Murakami

Its a sea of unsaid words that separate so many. They're sadly standing upon the shore waiting for the tide to change.…

— Anonymous

“If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and…

— Emile Zola

Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in…

— Brahmagupta

“So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Life is like water . If we stop at a point it'll start to stink so it must be a steam which…

— Arfa Zainab

In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe…

— Sylvia Plath

“To consider water on any scale was to confront a boundless repetition of small events. There were the tiny wonders: rain drops,…

— Anthony Doerr

Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“If you didn't divide it up, carve things into categories, it was all one in the same anyway - waves and oceans,…

— Peter Bunzl

...a river season will last as long as it takes you to reach your new place. If you get into the river…

— Andrew Kaufman

As you sail in Life, you cannot change the direction of the wind blowing you but you can change the direction to…

— Sessah-Odai Sadick

Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and…

— Henry Van Dyke

See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will… Think of…

— Earl Felton

“The reality is, we all want to walk on water, but none of us wants to step off the boat.”

— Jarrid Wilson

Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.

— Mircea Eliade

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

— William Shakespeare

“Water. Deep water. Infinitely deep water of the primordial ocean, where everything is possible.”

— Paulo Coelho

“...you all want to be the sea. But you're not the sea, you're just a raindrop.”

— Stephen Kelman

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

— Anonymous

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.

— Clive Cussler

Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the…

— Hal Borland

We Love Water. We Thank Water. We Respect Water. We Are All Water. We Are All One.

— Masaru Emoto

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

— William H. Whyte

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to…

— Tracy Kidder

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

— Andre Gide

“...you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...”

— John Geddes

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to loose sight of the shore.

— Christopher Columus

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

— John Dos Passos