Boat Quote by Herman Melville

Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and…

— Sigurd F. Olson

Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere,…

— Tom Robbins

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

— Laura Gilpin

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of…

— Loren Eiseley

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And…

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their…

— William Shakespeare

As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which…

— Swami Vivekananda

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

— John Muir

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool…

— Herman Melville

Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When I come to the country I cease to view man as separate from the rest. As the river runs through many a clime,…

— Rabindranath Tagore