Rivers Quotes
1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors
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The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.
— William Henry Ashley
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O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a…
— Fernando de Rojas
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Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town,…
— William Christopher Handy
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I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
— William Christopher Handy
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The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer…
— Myrtle Reed
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All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear…
— Richard Harding Davis
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Live like a mighty river.
— Gautama Buddha
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The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers…
— Christopher Columbus
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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies,…
— John Milton
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Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of…
— Paulo Coelho
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Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing…
— Carol P. Christ
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What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.
— Laozi
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The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
— Laozi
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Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.
— Laozi
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A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.
— Laozi
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The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above…
— Carole Maso
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Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted…
— George Bird Grinnell
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Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.
— Roderick Haig-Brown
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Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.
— Domenico Cieri
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As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only…
— Jack Finney
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I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.
— Kent McCord
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A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes…
— Elizabeth Cunningham
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Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how…
— Pocahontas
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The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;…
— Berton Braley
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Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.
— J. Sidlow Baxter
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