Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. — William Shakespeare
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and… — Thomas Carlyle
An individual human existence should be like a river — Bertrand Russell
The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the… — Jack Kerouac
All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have… — Wendell Berry
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. — Abraham Lincoln
If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event. — Hal Borland
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river. — Henry Van Dyke
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. — Blaise Pascal
The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother… — Sylvia Plath
The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the… — Michael Crichton
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise… — Edward Dahlberg
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not… — Sean O'Casey
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I… — William Least Heat-Moon
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents… — William Least Heat-Moon
Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it… — Guy Finley
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from… — Jonathan Raban
The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened… — Jonathan Raban
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace,… — Simon Newcomb
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics,… — Sun Tzu
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something… — Mary Oliver
In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut… — Bjorn Lomborg
Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid. — Jim Sturgess

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