Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving; as well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing to give the sea… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods,… — Mao Zedong
Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing. — Emily Carr
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse. — Aldo Leopold
Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do… — Deepak Chopra
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise... — Mark Twain
Peace is Letting Go--Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This… — Malidoma Patrice Some
Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways. — Michael Korda
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees,… — Thabo Mbeki
Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow… — Oswald Chambers
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols. — Anatole France
The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in… — Paula Cole
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this. — Heraclitus
The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And… — Harry Hooton
The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With… — Rainer Maria Rilke
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. — Lafcadio Hearn
When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that… — Socrates
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form… — Sun Tzu
At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be… — Hildegard of Bingen
The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are. — Elizabeth Lesser
As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to… — David Abram
I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the… — Aldo Leopold
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. — Solomon
Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian… — Swami Vivekananda

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