Rivers Quotes · Page 26

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

— Clifton Fadiman

The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.

— Deepak Chopra

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

— Rebecca West

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

— Anonymous

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

— Sam Cooke

The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for?

— Ueda Akinari

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

— Tony Gaskins

An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl…

— Kenneth Grahame

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient…

— William Shakespeare

We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down…

— David Giuntoli

Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth…Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Clifton Fadiman

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything…

— Russell Chatham

“God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and…

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless…

— George Eliot

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except…

— Wendell Berry

With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but…

— Melissa Bank

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has…

— Thomas Carlyle

As much as anything, the anglers will clue you in to the midge hatch. You will see them hunched over in concentration…

— Ed Engle

We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land,…

— David Foreman

After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman…

— Robert Hass

Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere; Let us take long walks in the open air... Let us bathe in…

— Robert Linssen

When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final…

— Alexander Blok

“As it was, then again it will be; though the course may change sometimes, rivers always lead to the sea.”

— Led Zeppelin

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

— Van Morrison

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

— Mary Daly

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

— Paul Newman

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

— Anonymous

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

— William Wordsworth

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

— Aldous Huxley

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart

— Tom Waits

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

— Hermann Hesse

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing…

— Natalie Goldberg

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.

— Stephen Crane

I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day…

— Barbara Lewis

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

— Rachel Carson

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

— Tim Cahill

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into…

— Richard Selzer

It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in…

— Richard Branson