River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as… — Khalil Gibran
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me… — J D Salinger
As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you… — Paulo Coelho
I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love… — Paulo Coelho
I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a… — Paulo Coelho
The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of… — Thomas Berry
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. — Horace
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. — Justin Timberlake
You cannot step into the same river twice. — Heraclitus
The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it… — Paulo Coelho
Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal… — Eliot Coleman
The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in… — Manmohan Acharya
This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds… — Nirmala Srivastava
There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side. — Clement of Alexandria
For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To… — Pema Chodron
When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze. — Kurt Lewin
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into… — Wallace Stegner
To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the… — Edwin Way Teale
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied in itself with… — Radhanath Swami
To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending… — Gretel Ehrlich

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