Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. — Enoch Powell
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River… — J. B. Priestley
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. — Theodore Roosevelt
New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we… — Jerry Saltz
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. — Jose Saramago
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the… — Jose Saramago
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But,… — George Saunders
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step,… — Charles Schumer
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only… — Wole Soyinka
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools. — Billy Sunday
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees;… — Radhanath Swami
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are… — Eckhart Tolle
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. — Mark Twain
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. — Mark Twain
I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress.… — Mark Udall
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even… — Morihei Ueshiba
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. — Leonardo da Vinci
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally… — Kerry Washington
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. — Voltaire
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that… — Thornton Wilder
Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart… — Michelle Williams
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as… — Henry Williamson

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