Streams Quotes · Page 4

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

— Neil Young

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

— Laozi

There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.

— Oliver Herford

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

— Ed Zern

Pee splits into two streams. Both miss the toilet...

— Anonymous

Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.

— Rumi

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

— Walter Raleigh

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

— Samuel Rogers

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,…

— John Milton

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

— Henry David Thoreau

Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of…

— James Joyce

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything…

— Joseph Joubert

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I…

— Laozi

There are many streams of cleansing-beginning with the Blood of Jesus! I want us to study and experience them all, as God…

— Jack W. Hayford

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning…

— Gautama Buddha

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

— James Russell Lowell

Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let…

— Bob Dylan

How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I think one must do the thing -- whatever it is (and it changes from time to time) -- that unites you…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth…

— Luther Standing Bear

Come to me in the silence of the night, Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream. Come with soft…

— Christina Rossetti

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the…

— Henry David Thoreau

When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are…

— Eckhart Tolle

The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape…

— John O'Donohue

See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a…

— Sol Stein

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A…

— Salman Rushdie

The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of…

— Tara Brach

The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of…

— Edwin Way Teale

May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

— Toru Takemitsu

All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.

— Dylan Thomas

I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.

— John Vance Cheney

alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

— Ovid

The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.

— Robert Montgomery

Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

— Swami Vivekananda

All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

— William Butler Yeats