River Quotes · Page 67

Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

— Jaimal Yogis

“When you sail, don't Pull up the anchor weeping. Be a man, do it laughing...”

— Shūsaku Endō

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around…

— Marcus Aurelius

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.”

— René Char

“You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

— William Faulkner

As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up…

— John Green

The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten…

— Milan Kundera

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know…

— Rachel Carson

“even though water chooses the path of least resistance, it ultimately defines its own course. Rivers divide and merge, they braid and…

— Shona Patel

To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at…

— Clarence Clemons

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

— Louis Bacon

“The river can go back over the past and bring it all up and spit it out on the banks in full…

— Paula Hawkins

We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A…

— Norbert Wiener

“The basic requirements for crossing an ocean under sail are no more than they always have been – a strong hull; a…

— Roger D. Taylor

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere…

— Hermann Hesse

If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to…

— Emma Restall Orr

“He walks toward the river, placing his feet carefully. His suit is too warm and tight. He reaches the water’s edge. There…

— James Salter

When you manage a big team like River Plate or Madrid, they are used to winning titles. The people are happy, but…

— Manuel Pellegrini

“It is hard to make that boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy, of course, is resistance of the…

— Daniel James Brown

Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and…

— John of Damascus

[Serialism] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

— Blaise Pascal

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

— Shunryu Suzuki

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

— Robert Browning

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

— Anonymous

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

— Grace Hopper

“Learn from the ocean; not fearing turbulence, it uses the wind against it to rise instead.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.”

— Lin Pardey

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

— Mark Twain

You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.

— John Assaraf

Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

“Ships are safe at Harbor, but that's what they aren't meant for.”

— Anonymous

“Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard.”

— George R.R. Martin

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

— Robert Montgomery

“I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.”

— Dwight lyman moody

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

— Ross Perot