River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential. — Stefan Molyneux
When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your… — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with… — Merle Haggard
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when… — Henry David Thoreau
I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell… — Henry David Thoreau
The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down. — Kent Hovind
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it. — Charles Kuralt
Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows… — Yasmin
I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow.… — George Harrison
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway.… — Cesar Pelli
The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yset absolutely… — Rajneesh
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. — Gladys Taber
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had… — Hermann Hesse
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river… — Gautama Buddha
As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to… — Clint Walker
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. — Clint Walker
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground… — Howard Thurman
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah… — Frederick Reines
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the… — Horace
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the… — James Russell Lowell

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