Rivers Quotes · Page 22

And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.

— Christopher Paolini

“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.”

— Sanober Khan

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

— Anthony Horowitz

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

— Edwin Arnold

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

— Ovid

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

— Antoine Rivarol

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima]…

— Rudolfo Anaya

Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is…

— Antony Gormley

What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of…

— Saint Augustine

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance…

— Jonis Agee

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm…

— Dalai Lama

The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from…

— Christopher Columbus

The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the…

— Ed Rendell

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a…

— Michael Crichton

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is…

— Franz Rosenzweig

The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of…

— David Suzuki

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go…

— Edward Hoagland

Trout fisherman often give away their presence to the fish by the equipment they are wearing. The yo-yo hanging on the fly…

— Lefty Kreh

A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with…

— David Ben-Gurion

Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts. And I…

— Paul Walker

I was a huge fan of the Chargers and LaDainian Tomlinson, and Philip Rivers. All those guys. Antonio Gates.

— Justin Herbert

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got…

— Eugene Field

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

— Izaak Walton

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

— B. J. Palmer

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers…

— George Bernard Shaw

Baby I'm yours and I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers all run dry. In…

— Anonymous

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries,

— Janet Echelman

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from…

— Thaddeus Norris

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

— Khalil Gibran

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

— John Milton

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

— Edward Abbey

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

— Brian Andreas

What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you…

— Patricia A. McKillip