River Quotes · Page 79

“There is nothing better than being on the water." Captain Argyle Arbuckle”

— Brianna Genteman

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

— Robert Herrick

“Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.”

— Salman Rushdie

One cannot discover new oceans if he has not the courage to loose sight of the shore

— Anonymous

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning

— Native American Proverb

“He was leaving my stepmother for a sailboat. Not that I blamed him. A sailboat would at least be useful.”

— Darynda Jones

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

— Joseph Conrad

What did the ocean say to the other ocean? nothing, he just waved

— Roumain

“The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are…

— Louis Nowra

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and…

— Desmond Tutu

Time is like a river, you can never touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass…

— Jado

All the waters in the ocean could never sink a ship unless it gets inside.. Likewise, all the pressures of life can…

— Bernajoy Vaal

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not…

— Lucretius

Time passes, people move...Like a river's flow, it never ends...A childish mind will turn to noble ambition...Young love will become deep affection...The…

— Zelda

There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my…

— Robert M. Hensel

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lead to the river Midsummer, I waved A 'V' of black swans on with hope to the grave.

— Cradle Of Filth

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all…

— John Locke

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

— Lord Byron

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.

— Michael Scott

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

— Carl Perkins

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

— Miyamoto Musashi

The water is a place of freedom and raw nature, beware for it will consume you as easily as you walk

— Aaliyah Hurley

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

— Maurice Hinchey

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

— Charles Mackay

“...with a rhythmic sound of languid water lapping hypnotically against a beach nearby.”

— Lois Lowry

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.

— Rolf Edberg

“The placid sea shines like an aluminium sheet rolled out to the end of the horizon.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

— Natalie Dormer

“you are not a drop in the ocean... you are entire ocean in a drop”

— Rumi

“Before the ocean is a friend or foe, it simply is. And so are you.”

— Ava Reid

There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go…

— Frederick Lenz

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

— Charles Davis

“You're Sappho, I'm Phaon, agreed. But there's one thing still troubling me: You don't know your way to the sea.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a singe hope.

— Epictetus

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

— George Harrison

“Everyone is simply riding the wave chance has put them on. Some people know how to surf; some people drown.”

— Louis Menand

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

— Meister Eckhart

“If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo