Rivers Quotes · Page 25

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of…

— Ken Auletta

We are on the Colorado...that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river.

— Barry Goldwater

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

— Robert Burns

All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

— Heraclitus

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

— Muhammad Ali

Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.

— Oswald Chambers

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

— Tom Sutcliffe

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

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

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

— Charles Ritz

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

This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times.…

— Cassandra Clare

The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of…

— Devin Townsend

I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool…

— Jack Ohman

[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a…

— Van Morrison

But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees…

— Keri Hulme

Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek.…

— Nalini Singh

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

— Virginia Woolf

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

— Clint Walker

There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.

— Marcus Luttrell

I have nothing snarky to say about Joan Rivers' appearance. We should all be that happy with how we look on camera,…

— Julie Klausner

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.

— Art Linkletter

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

— Jonathan Swift

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

— George Herbert

The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup.

— Helena Rutherfurd Ely

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

— Will Eisner

Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian…

— George Habash

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...

— Jim Harrison

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

— William Gilbert

We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our…

— Eyedea

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and…

— Walter Scott

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

— Robbie Keane

Then as it was, then again it will be, and though the course will change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.

— Ritu Ghatourey