River Quotes · Page 57

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

— David Crosby

A wise man once said, 'a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.'

— Anonymous

“What is it about being on a boat that makes everyone behave like a film star? --Julia Flyte”

— Evelyn Waugh

Life is like a river...have many turns,,try to learn from alll..because they bring you returns...

— Senoraroy

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

— Robert Wyland

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Norman Maclean

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

— Antonio Machado

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for…

— Lewis Carroll

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she…

— William Falconer

It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed…

— Lucretius

If it's a beautiful day we love to go to the Museum of Natural History. They have sprinklers. It's what passes for…

— Alisyn Camerota

Life is like the seashore; the waves come crashing, rocks erode away and the current pulls you out, yet.. you still go…

— JJWorswick

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi…

— Ron Kind

“I don't want to be the river anymore. I want to be the earth that the tree roots in. And I believe…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“ “The water that flows through the canals is both beautiful and deadly. Its tranquil surface belies the toxins beneath-- unpleasant to…

— Fiona Paul

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

— Sylvia Plath

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish…

— Annie Dillard

“The mind will say this forever. But I mostly fish rivers these dayas. In so doing, movement becomes stasis, flux is the…

— David James Duncan

“Seems like our life's over and done." "No, it ain't," Ma smiled. "It ain't, Pa. An' that's one more thing a woman…

— John Steinbeck

But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Unfortunately for Mariners, the total amount of wave energy and storm does not rise linearly with wind speed, but to its fourth…

— Sebastian Junger

“Water, running - It was observed in ancient times that ghosts dislike crossing running water. In modern Britain this knowledge is sometimes…

— Jonathan Stroud

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on…

— Andrew O'Hagan

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

— Mas Oyama

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Elizabeth Hay

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

— Carol Bly

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

— Julie-Anne

“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

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— William Shakespeare

“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

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

— Félix J. Palma

Time is a river of passing events and we are the fish searching for an ocean.

— Vikrant Parsai

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken…

— Aldo Leopold

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

— Adrienne Clarkson

“Fill this city of mine with people as, You filled the river with fishes O Lord.”

— Quli Qutub Shah