Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer. — Gene Hill
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt… — Richard Louv
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied… — Alister E. McGrath
A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns… — Anatole Broyard
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude… — Edward de Bono
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who… — Donald Miller
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. — Saint Augustine
Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a… — Robert Noyce
The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread… — Thomas Chalmers
There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from… — Edgar Winter
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. — Mary Renault
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. — William H. Whyte
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of… — Christopher Columbus
If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb… — Wilfrid Noyce
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries. — Brian Andreas
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the… — Henry Ward Beecher
I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great… — Rabindranath Tagore
...Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you;… — Guru Nanak
Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand… — Mao Zedong
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of… — Laozi
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past,… — Hermann Hesse
The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than… — Rabindranath Tagore
China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. — Li Peng

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