Able Quote by Laozi

The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

— Laozi

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

— Bob Goff

Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve…

— Laozi

No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers…

— Herman Melville

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

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

— Charles Kuralt

There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.

— Shailene Woodley

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

Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size,…

— John Playfair

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

— David R. Brower

“The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able…

— Dale Carnegie