Rivers Quotes

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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
It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is… — Richard Branson
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. — A A Milne
In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top. — Benjamin Franklin
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. — Jean Cocteau
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as… — Chief Joseph
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… — Unknown Author
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large… — Yuri Gagarin
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
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies… — Edward Dahlberg
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
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas,… — William Wordsworth
Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. — William Stafford
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
Our bodies are molded rivers. — Novalis

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