Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

On a horse there is a perfect position of balance where he doesn’t feel like he’s pushing you along with him or dragging you along… — Buck Brannaman
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more… — Swami Vivekananda
I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things… — Heraclitus
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair… — Ron Kind
Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one… — Mao Zedong
Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is… — Tina Fey
It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time!… — Aldo Leopold
Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the… — Stonewall Jackson
Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've… — Jack Kerouac
Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party. — Terry Southern
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,… — Victor Hugo
Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine. — Bruce Cockburn
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy… — John O'Donohue
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between… — Ernest Thompson Seton
Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea. — Jim Gerlach
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. — Sally Ride
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such… — George Elliott Clarke
Do I look like the Green River Killer? — Gary Ridgway
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light… — Charles Dickens
Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty… — Dalai Lama
Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property… — Noah Webster
James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos. — Kaley Cuoco
The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence. — Deepak Chopra
True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of… — Sri Chinmoy

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