River Quotes · Page 77

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~…

— Langston Hughes

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

— Jodi Picoult

“Suffering when cannot be avoided, is to help your way to glory…all rivers flow into the same sea.”

— Paulo Coelho

With 'River Monsters,' it sometimes didn't matter if the story was made up or exaggerated.

— Jeremy Wade

“Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.” William Wordsworth,”

— James Hollis

“The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.”

— Patrick O'Brian

The water has a Water that is driving it; The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.

— Rumi

With 'River Monsters', I am the investigator: here's the crime scene, I talk to witnesses, I establish a suspects list, I narrow…

— Jeremy Wade

What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing,…

— Swami Vivekananda

“THE RIVER OF FOREVER is not the serene, clear-blue comfort that you'd hope to greet your soul after you've exhaled your last…

— James Patterson

“Sometimes he tries to catch her, wading frantically through earth that has turned to water, or sometimes through air. Sometimes she tries…

— Colin Greenland

In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the…

— John Selden

“He used to often say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Luckily, though, there are still a few guys around who will look you straight in the eye and say, eloquently and to…

— John Gierach

The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin,…

— Yvor Winters

“Don't limit yourself to drop of water, come drown in the deepness of heart and become the ocean.”

— Harsh Ranga Neo

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.

— Andrew Marvell

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

— Eyvind Kang

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

— Barry Lopez

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

— Terry Pratchett

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

— Lucretius

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

— Hermann Broch

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

— William James

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.

— William Butler Yeats

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

— James Altucher

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

— Heraclitus

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?

— Neko Case

There is no use of spreading the net in the river where there is no fish.

— Vikrant Parsai

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

— Lucy Larcom

Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The green sea tortoise swim unhindered through them; this quiet underworld has here from time immemorial.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

— St. Jerome

Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

— Alice Munro

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles…

— Epictetus

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

— Mike McAlary

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

— Wallace Stevens

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

— Ram Dass