Rivers Quotes · Page 31

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

— Emily Carr

You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains.

— Robert Benchley

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“As it was, then again it will be; though the course may change sometimes, rivers always lead to the sea.”

— Led Zeppelin

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

— Mary Daly

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

— Van Morrison

The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for?

— Ueda Akinari

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

— Sam Cooke

The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but…

— Ray Bergman

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an…

— Jeremy Collier

Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the…

— Joseph Rodman Drake

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to…

— Laozi

Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we…

— Pam Brown

Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of…

— Anonymous

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys,…

— Radhanath Swami

Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they…

— Horace Binney Wallace

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something…

— George Saunders

He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world,…

— Hermann Hesse

In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into…

— Brian Evenson

Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist…

— Catherine Anderson

So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no…

— Carl Jung

The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze…

— Paul Theroux

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

— Tony Gaskins

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart

— Tom Waits

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

— Hermann Hesse

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

— Anonymous

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

— Paul Newman

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

— Aldous Huxley

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

— William Wordsworth

Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the landler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver.

— Charles Hamilton Aide

The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

— Swami Satchidananda

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

— Dawna Markova

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want…

— Nancy Horan

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

— Brenda Ueland

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

— Mary Renault

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

— Izaak Walton

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

— Ann Zwinger