River Quotes

1549 quotes by 1098 authors

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. — Minna Antrim
What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like… — Laozi
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and… — Gretel Ehrlich
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it… — Charles Kuralt
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into… — Gloria Steinem
The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in… — J. G. Holland
Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you. — Sun Tzu
The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. — Swami Nithyananda
A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself. — Laura Gilpin
To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things. — John Haines
Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and… — John Playfair
Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and… — Wang Wei
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It… — Roderick Haig-Brown
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. — Jean Cocteau
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. — Clifton Fadiman
Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes
It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or… — Tom Brokaw
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this… — Jack Kornfield
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be… — Mao Zedong
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. — Heraclitus

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