Rivers Quotes · Page 43

The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To…

— Wendell Berry

Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One…

— Joe Brooks

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a…

— Ernest Thompson Seton

They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it…

— Jonathan Swift

Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of…

— Ritwik Ghatak

James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow…

— Emile Hirsch

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes,…

— Guru Nanak

Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front…

— Kristin Cashore

Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said…

— Brandon Sanderson

“But I also know this: even though water chooses the path of least resistance, it ultimately defines its own course. Rivers divide…

— Shona Patel

Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a…

— Eugene Field

I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then…

— Alice Oswald

We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams…

— Tikhon of Zadonsk

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad…

— Abraham Lincoln

Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her…

— Lauren Oliver

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are,…

— Anonymous

Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses…

— Ana Castillo

Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the…

— John Gay

Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise…

— Gautama Buddha

The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street…

— Regina Spektor

One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the…

— Julia Gregson

O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by…

— Paul Schullery

I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife -…

— Antony Gormley

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what…

— John Gierach

You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from…

— Oliver Sacks

“The river this November afternoon Rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud: A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud Its passage.…

— Cecil Day-Lewis

A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night…

— Tad R. Callister

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations…

— Jefferson Davis

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My…

— Cheng Man-ch'ing

Picture that the waves of golden light have now become a solid river of golden light that is constantly passing through you.…

— Frederick Lenz

I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their…

— H. Rider Haggard

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church,…

— Tina Turner

Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time…

— Tony Bishop

The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as…

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap…

— Willa Cather

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply…

— Annie Dillard