Rivers Quotes · Page 22

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

— John D. Voelker

The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river.

— Vitor Belfort

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

— Thomas Bernhard

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

— Theodore Roosevelt

. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it…

— Tom Sutcliffe

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

— Jerome K. Jerome

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

— Michael Faraday

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

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

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

— Annie Dillard

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

The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of…

— Qurratulain Hyder

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but…

— Bill Geist

She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy, but it's nice. And when she gets mad, you best leave…

— Garth Brooks

Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not…

— Anonymous

The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts;…

— Malik Yusef

When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings…

— Robert Hunter

I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of…

— Mike deGruy

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be…

— Jeff Merkley

The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known…

— Henry David Thoreau

One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former…

— Marq de Villiers

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

— James Joseph Sylvester

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

— William Henry Ashley

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

— Gautama Buddha

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

— Bob Goff

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

— John Wesley Powell

Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when…

— Anonymous

Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge.

— Massimo Vitali

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

— Sarah McLachlan

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us…

— Stephen Colbert

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

— Adoniram Judson

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an…

— Dennis Miller

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

— Arthur Ransome

The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.

— Clarence H. Burns

It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day .

— Garrison Keillor

“Don't go chasin'waterfalls,stIck to the rivers and lakes that you're used to”

— Kaye rodger