River Quotes · Page 78

You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to…

— Joyelle McSweeney

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

— Andre Breton

The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.

— Swami Vivekananda

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

— Nastassja Kinski

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not why ships were built.”

— Charlotte Revenge

The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains

— Siddharth Katragadda

To play a match between Boca and River in Madrid, it's weird. But as a player, it is important to stay focused…

— Carlos Tevez

Waves are inspiring not bcoz they rise and fall,bcoz each time they fall they never fail to rise again

— Raksha Tiwari

When you've played at a club like River, who are a massive, massive club in Argentina - and Roma, the same, in…

— Erik Lamela

“Little pools of water tend to become stagnant and useless, but that if they are joined together to form a big lake,…

— Sardar Patel

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury…

— Fred Allen

A ship is designed to take you places, so if your friendship, companionship, partnership or relationship isn't taking you anywhere... abandon ship!

— Anonymous

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following…

— Eartha Kitt

We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing…

— Thomas Moore

I feel like 'Harlem River' was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and 'Still Life' is between Point…

— Kevin Morby

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

— Josephine Tey

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

— Laozi

Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

— Heinrich Zimmer

...Who spoons the water from the cloud to the snow-cap to the river and feeds it to the hungry ocean?

— Pan Munoz Ryan

“A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.”

— Patrick McCully

“Life and death are two banks of the same river. Time is the boat on which we travel from one to the…

— Vinita Kinra

People worship and revere Ganga as a mother, and then throw away flowers in a plastic bag into the same river.

— Dia Mirza

“Minty’s in a bit of trouble, and he was not surprised. He said something about her sailing too close to the wind.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

— Alan Coren

“Everyone sees the violence of the swollen river. Few see the violence of the embankments that constrain it.”

— Ancient Chinese Proverb

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

— Stephen Gardiner

But still the delicate slips keepcoaxing up water; The small cells bulge; One nub of growth Nudges a sand-crumb loose,

— Theodore Roethke

“I love you as much as the ocean kisses the shore no matter how many times it is sent away.”

— Sarah Kay

“When the winds of life blow hard and hit your boat, you've got to adjust your sails to keep afloat.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“We were now well and truly up the creek, and paddles were in short supply.”

— Stephen Boyle

You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.

— Morrie Schwartz

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

— John Stuart Blackie

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea…

— Marquis de Sade

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

— Joseph Conrad

“Everybody's got a river inside," he said. "Always something under the surface.”

— John H Ritter

“The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.”

— Annie Proulx

“Hence, in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea”

— William Wordsworth

The Massachusetts Fourth, from Fall River to Brookline, is a powerhouse of talent and work ethic.

— Jake Auchincloss