Rivers Quotes · Page 18

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

— Barten Holyday

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

— Anonymous

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

— Anatole France

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

— Juliana Berners

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Meister Eckhart

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With…

— William Shakespeare

Stars do not struggle to shine, rivers do not struggle to flow, and you will never struggle to excel in life because…

— Donald Driver

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems…

— William O. Douglas

Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook…

— William Shakespeare

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a…

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Desmond Tutu

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through…

— Lydia M. Child

Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in…

— Samuel Johnson

I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes…

— Lisa Ann Sandell

I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in…

— Mike Rowe

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and…

— Norman Maclean

When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy…

— Chris Frantz

Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly…

— Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived…

— Clifton Fadiman

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which,…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to…

— Amy Gerstler

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

— Maurice Hinchey

There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.

— Dale Rex Coman

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

— Rafael Sabatini

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

— Sylvester Stallone

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

— Aldo Leopold

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

— Colin Mochrie

A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so…

— Willie Nelson

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

— W. S. Gilbert

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

— Native American Proverb

There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.

— Lee Wulff

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

— Deepak Chopra

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

— Matthew of Edessa

Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

— Lefty Kreh

The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

— Kent Hovind

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

— Wendell Berry

It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a…

— Tony Sunshine