Rivers Quotes · Page 15

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

— Robert Burns

The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of…

— Ken Auletta

We are on the Colorado...that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river.

— Barry Goldwater

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors…

— Ray Bradbury

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

— Ashanti

West Somerset is one of my favourite places: there's fabulous walking with cliffs, forests and rivers.

— Rebecca Front

Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem…

— Terry Pratchett

Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your…

— Bette Midler

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with…

— Rajneesh

When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of…

— Candice Millard

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have…

— Michel de Montaigne

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it.…

— Eugene Chadbourne

Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This…

— Linda Hogan

“One cannot know the rivers till one has seen them at their sources; but this journey to sources is not to be…

— Nan Shepherd

So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even…

— Derrick Jensen

We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know…

— Andrea Gibson

The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote…

— Jamaica Kincaid

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense…

— Ayn Rand

Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring…

— Pat Conroy

In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be…

— Wangari Maathai

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

— Thomas Jefferson

Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes

— Kay Redfield Jamison

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

— Kenneth Oppel

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

— Melody Carlson

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to…

— Rumi

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

— Swami Satchidananda

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

— Lois Lowry

...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

— Tom Sutcliffe

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

— John Ruskin

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

— Ted Nugent

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

— Patricia Briggs

In some respects, I was almost a country boy. I ran around in streams and rivers and all that sort of thing.

— Douglas Henshall

Dont go chasing waterfalls ... please stick to the rivers & the lakes that your use to…

— TLC

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

— Theocritus

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a…

— Eugene Field