River Quotes

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While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude… — Edward de Bono
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. Iâ€™m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who… — Donald Miller
Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a… — Robert Noyce
There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from… — Edgar Winter
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. — Mary Renault
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. — William H. Whyte
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of… — Christopher Columbus
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the… — Henry Ward Beecher
...Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you;… — Guru Nanak
Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand… — Mao Zedong
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of… — Laozi
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past,… — Hermann Hesse
The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than… — Rabindranath Tagore
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to… — Roy Barnes
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, — Janet Echelman
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river. — Anthony de Mello
When peace like a river, attendeth my way / When sorrow like sea billows roll / Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say… — Unknown Author
But I do enjoy wordsâ€”some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than… — Alasdair Gray
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my… — Jonathan Swift

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