Shallows Quotes

20 quotes by 20 authors

I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion… — Richard Dawkins
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim. — John Owen
Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open,… — Frederick Buechner
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer… — Myrtle Reed
Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the… — Ford Madox Ford
Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his… — Robert Burns
WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken,… — James Salter
The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves,… — Hal Porter
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
Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or… — John Graves
The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows. — Marge Piercy
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. — Matthew Henry
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life… — William Shakespeare
It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing â€“ a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea. I move through… — Franny Billingsley
Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep. — Christina Rossetti
I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love… — Paulo Coelho
Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty… — Virginia Woolf
Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of… — John James Audubon
William Shakespeare once said: 'There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted all the… — Haley James Scott
Let all men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly, for he freely fords who sees the shallows. — Benjamin Franklin

Who Wrote These Shallows Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 20 Shallows Quotes as follows: