Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I… — Herman Melville
I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing… — Mark Helprin
All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river — Heraclitus
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why… — Desmond Tutu
I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in… — Lupe Fiasco
They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near… — Tom Clancy
I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too. — Amy Schumer
A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put… — John Owen
Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the… — Zane Grey
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think… — Kenny Smith
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period… — Mark Twain
If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger… — Miguel Syjuco
In a life properly lived, you’re a river, — Jim Harrison
The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential. — Stefan Molyneux
When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your… — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas… — Robert Smithson
The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with… — Merle Haggard
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly… — Freya Stark
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when… — Henry David Thoreau
I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell… — Henry David Thoreau
Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become. — Bob Goff
The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down. — Kent Hovind
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it. — Charles Kuralt
Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows… — Yasmin
I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow.… — George Harrison

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