River Quotes · Page 79

“The elegant black-and-white ship, all 24,170 tons of it, loomed like a mountain in a dinner jacket.”

— Michael Chabon

“The river winds blow, Giving the surface no plan Of how to proceed.”

— David Cope

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

— Mary Oliver

We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

— Billy Joel

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Tidal waves surge forward, And in their wake, Stale water is replenished. (Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER)”

— Wendy Shreve

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

— Tim Powers

“A female ship should slowly go to dock when she sees a male harbour, for this is the most natural thing to…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I've got a lot of affection for the people at River and I think it's mutual. The fans quickly understood that I…

— David Trezeguet

“Avoid hating people because you might have destroyed the bridge you have just used to cross the river; you'll need that bridge…

— israelmore ayivor

“There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship…

— Roni Horn

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea…

— George Eliot

“Deep in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold fish rove, Where the sea flower spreads its…

— John D. Whidden

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to…

— Jean Giraudoux

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

— Dalai Lama

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Life is like a flowing river where every ripple impacts in the waves.”

— Leonard Ondigo

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

— Sarah Doudney

What did the Ocean say to the other Ocean?...Nothing they just Waved...Did you Sea what I did there?...I'm Shore you did!

— Anonymous

“Everywhere I go is the river. I’m following it or it’s following me. I know, suddenly, what I must do.”

— Gillian Flynn

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

— William Shakespeare

“to split the very sea into ours and theirs." Border at the Beach And More White Sheets”

— Eileen Clemens Granfors

“No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.”

— George R.R. Martin

The melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else.

— Jaden Smith

In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.

— Edith Widder

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.

— Sri Aurobindo

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of…

— Anonymous

Man cant discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

— Anonymous

“Like a river, I’m going to meander through the party. Will you be my canoe?
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— Jarod Kintz

Strength; a river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

“The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The ocean lives and wanders free, happily to flow gracefully with the wind.”

— J. Kahele

Every little pebble in the stream believes itself to be a precious stone.

— Japanese Proverb

“Unlike in sailing, an even keel is no good when talking suspense.”

— Alan Orloff

“Small as a pea. Wider than the sea. This is where you and I came to be.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak.

— Varg Vikernes

“What was the use trying to make safe and sure our little life? Sooner or later the great wave must come and…

— Erich Maria Remarque