River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of… — Akkineni Nagarjuna
This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world… — Swami Vivekananda
Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw… — Samuel Johnson
A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. — Garth Brooks
Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land… — John F. Kerry
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

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