Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

Be wild; that is how to clear the river. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway.… — Cesar Pelli
The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yset absolutely… — Rajneesh
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. — Gladys Taber
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers,… — William Blake
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had… — Hermann Hesse
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river… — Gautama Buddha
As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to… — Clint Walker
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. — Clint Walker
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground… — Howard Thurman
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah… — Frederick Reines
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the… — Horace
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the… — James Russell Lowell
I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the… — Kristin Harmel
Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain… — Vinod Khosla
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy. — Amanda Lindhout
A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a fountain… — Jaume Plensa
You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to… — Lee Kuan Yew
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea. — Michel de Montaigne
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne

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