Rivers Quotes

Feed a fish a cat a day

— Tony Bishop

An ocean refuses no river.

— Sheila Chandra

Insanity makes the rivers flow.

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Love is a river. Drink from it.

— Rumi

Misery is the River of the World

— Tom Waits

The great fish eat the small.

— Alexander Barclay

What if River Phoenix had lived?

— Drew McWeeny

Deep rivers run quiet.

— Haruki Murakami

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

— Robert Lowell

“A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.”

— Patrick McCully

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

— Benjamin Franklin

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

— Blaise Pascal

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

— Anonymous

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

— Anonymous

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

— Jim Harrison

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'

— Carl Sandburg

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

— Gautama Buddha

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a…

— Justin Cronin

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

— Laozi

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

— Deepak Chopra

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

— Mary Oliver

Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places…

— Ray Bergman

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original…

— Billy Joel

There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move…

— Emmitt Smith

The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the…

— Charles Ritz

It's amazing to think that there must be this river of ideas constantly rushing inside of a person, and once you've somehow…

— Greg Saunier

Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us…

— Stonewall Jackson

There is the need for an intimate romantic relationship with the father. Abundant joy and an intimate personal receiving of God's love…

— John Arnott

To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will…

— Eckhart Tolle

My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something…

— Gautama Buddha

The indications which tell your dry fly angler when to strike are clear and unmistakable, but those which bid a wet fly…

— G. E. M. Skues

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of…

— George Orwell

To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love…

— Pablo Neruda

The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber…

— John Muir