Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari. — Alexander McCall Smith
I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive… — Ken Salazar
The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a… — Swami Vivekananda
What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the… — Swami Vivekananda
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung… — Pat Conroy
I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able… — Susan Sullivan
What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it… — Joseph Wambaugh
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's… — Lawrence Wright
When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither… — Hal Borland
I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some… — Sandra Steingraber
There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it. — Frederick Lenz
All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw… — Trygve Lie
I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.'… — Cristin Milioti
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life. — Donald Miller
Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten… — Ho Chi Minh
When your soul is pricked by compunction and gradually changed, it becomes a fountain flowing with rivers of tears and compunction. If any one of… — Symeon the New Theologian
When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early… — Henry David Thoreau
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids… — Harvey Broome
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. — Bronislaw Malinowski
Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we'll reunite for all eternity. — Avril Lavigne
God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret? — Sarah McLachlan
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God. — John of the Cross
My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that. — Tim Cahill

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