Downstream Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action,… — Maya Angelou
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along… — Stephen Batchelor
We all live downstream — David Suzuki
Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob… — Arlo Guthrie
We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil… — Hassanal Bolkiah
All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply… — John Salazar
Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What… — Oren Lyons
It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars,… — Esther Hicks
Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly? — Philip Caldwell
Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. — Timothy Leary
An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or… — Richard Lewontin
Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the… — Charles R. Swindoll
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented… — John Breaux
Politics is downstream from culture. — Andrew Breitbart
Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream. — Esther Hicks
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where… — Sylvia Earle
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. — W.C. Fields
The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a… — Eliot Spitzer
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. — Rick Warren

Who Wrote These Downstream Quotes

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