River Quotes · Page 80

“Water isn't shaped like a river or ocean; it mists invisibly against metal and glass”

— Maya Angelou

As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.

— Anonymous

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

— Barten Holyday

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I had no idea 'Moon River' would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it.

— Henry Mancini

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

— David R. Brower

Just because anyone can pilot a ship in the sea doesnt always mean that they also know how to swim in it.

— Vikrant Parsai

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“scow   n. a wide-beamed sailing dinghy.  a flat-bottomed boat with sloping ends used as a lighter and in dredging and other…

— Oxford University Press

I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly…

— Tim Winton

Two of my dramas, 'Unforgotten' and 'River,' were airing at the same time, and Dad had read about my 'success' in a…

— Nicola Walker

“What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the…

— Mal Peet

On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the…

— William C. Bryant

Life is flowing like a River with Unexpected turns, May be good , or may be Bad, learn to Enjoy turn because…

— Babloo

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to…

— Rahul Gandhi

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all…

— Christopher Paolini

“Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.”

— John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

See her gentle sway, a wave on the ocean could never move that way.

— Johnny Tillotson

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

— Grover Cleveland

The pure serene of memory inone man, A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters ofthe world.

— Anonymous

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

— Al-Shafi‘i

Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an 'Old Man River,' way down in the bass.

— Julie Andrews

“movements must be like a long, flowing river, continuous without jerks or stopping.”

— Stuart Alve Olson

“No matter how good the sailor, a still breeze will take a man nowhere.”

— Loron-Jon Stokes

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

— Khalil Gibran

“You cannot discover new oceans until you are willing to lose sight of the shore.”

— Sharon Leaf

“We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”

— J.M. Barrie

It is easier to change rivers and mountains than human character.

— Vikrant Parsai

Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What a beautiful world it was once. At least a river of it was.”

— Norman Maclean

You aint standin in the river so why are you in denial? (the Nile)

— Cyhi Da Prynce

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

— Vera Nazarian

“Over the river and through the wood To grandfather's house we go”

— Lydia Maria Francis Child

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.

— Mooji

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

— Rafael Sabatini

“Even a pebble cast in the middle of a lake creates ripples that eventually reaches the shore.”

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

“The river in front of her was black. She thought it contained many things.”

— Gisele Prassinos

“The only way for the word or the water to return to its source is by changing its state.”

— Russell M. Stendal

“Ripples are made by those reckless enough to jump into the ocean.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time!

— Reinhold Niebuhr