Rivers Quotes · Page 26

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

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

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you…

— Anne Graham Lotz

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers,…

— William Wordsworth

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . .…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Rivers have what man most respects and longs for in his own life and thought-a capacity for renewal and replenishment, continual energy,…

— Henry C. Duggan III

Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of…

— Edward Abbey

Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river…

— Coleman Barks

I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that…

— Coleman Barks

We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made…

— Norman Maclean

He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on…

— Josephine Tey

This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting…

— Joseph Pilates

WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The…

— James Salter

Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is…

— Augusten Burroughs

I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I…

— Sarah Dunant

The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early…

— Mary O'Neill

For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he…

— Christiaan Barnard

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

— John Wesley Powell

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

— Michael Faraday

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

— Jim Gerlach

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

— Paul Schullery

My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi…

— William Gurstelle

“There is something that connects Indians with their rivers. Some deep, indescribable bond.”

— Vineet Bajpai

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

— Shozo Tanaka

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the…

— D.T. Suzuki

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

— Ruta Sepetys

Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.

— Ming-Dao Deng

Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish…

— Sharon Gannon

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

— Robert Barron

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

— Kent McCord

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

— Max Muller

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

— Ann Landers