River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

Love without trust is a river without water. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the… — Jerome K. Jerome
Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset… — Unknown Author
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they… — Edward Abbey
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and… — Wendell Berry
There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river. — David R. Brower
Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever. — David R. Brower
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . . — Robert Burns
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. — George William Curtis
We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin.… — John Daniel
The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone. — Roberta Flack
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also… — Thomas W. Horton
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they… — Lyndon B. Johnson
. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters .… — Aldo Leopold
I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat… — Norman Maclean
We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us.… — Norman Maclean
Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the river journey to… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
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
The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding like a leap… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous. — Lynn Culbreath Noel
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the… — David Quammen
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. — Henry David Thoreau
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood… — Henry David Thoreau

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