River Quotes · Page 78

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you…

— Sylvia Earle

“Perhaps this isn't your boat. Perhaps it doesn't sail where you want to go.”

— Jessica Brockmole

Ain't no mountain high enough, Ain't no valley low enough, Ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you…

— Marvin Gaye

Our Life is like a Boat that can Float. Some Row and Go! Some Blink and Sink!!-RVM

— RVM

For the lakhs living along its banks, the Aghanashini has given people life and livelihoods.

— Rohini Nilekani

Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.!!

— Anonymous

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

— Ami Ayalon

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.

— Nhat Hanh

Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the…

— Hal Borland

The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People…

— Leonard Orr

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail…

— George Orwell

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops…

— Danielle Steel

“lucky he isn’t on the bottom of Boston Harbor with a pair of cement slippers and a log chain necklace,” Carmen stated…

— Timothy M. Burke

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous,…

— Gretel Ehrlich

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from…

— Hermann Hesse

“This was life on the surface of the sea. A calm, placid exterior that could soothe you into submission or swell up…

— Kenneth Eade

“Corey Bryant sank into a great forgetful river, and that river was time, and its waters were red.”

— Stephen King

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

— Benjamin Franklin

Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness.

— David Wolfe

Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

— Aeschylus

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

— Fernando Pessoa

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

— Henry David Thoreau

“A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.”

— Patrick Mendis

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going…

— Jimmy Buffett

I've watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on…

— Willie Aames

I can sit on a boat or a river bank and problems that seemed insurmountable just don't seem that important anymore.

— Van Heflin

Life's so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with…

— Zeenat Aman

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

— Joshua Slocum

Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]

— George Herbert

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail…

— Stefan Molyneux

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Yves Cousteau”

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

“If only there were a river of courage, - Rahel whispered. I would bend down, cup the water in my hand and…

— Jane Kurtz

We can’t make a portal—” “We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered.

— Rick Riordan

“Even if you miss a hundred opportunities, there are a million ways for the river to flow into the sea.”

— Angelos Ioannis

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

— Blaine Lee

“Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet; Womanhood and childhood fleet. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW”

— D.E. Stevenson

When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Red Rum them tryin to figure out him, baptize myself in a river hennessy.

— Kid Cudi

I cant change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.~(:

— Jimmy Dean