Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony de Mello

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Insanity makes the rivers flow.

Anthony Horowitz

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

Well, the River Mart. You have to have the River Mart.

Alexander Pope

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

Debbie Ford

Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.

Duke of Wellington

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

Dante Alighieri

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

Cyril Connolly

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

Danielle Steel

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

Danielle Steel

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river...

Deepak Chopra

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

Amy Schumer

I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.

Anthony Bourdain

I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don't see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.

We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.

Ram Dass

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

Hunter S. Thompson

We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river

William Shakespeare

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

We get the view. We can concentrate on the wildlife and the trains. And the river itself, the water flowing.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

With the way the river runs through the park, it's just beautiful.

Bertrand Russell

An individual human existence should be like a river

William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

John O'Donohue

Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

John O'Donohue

May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding.

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

Hermann Hesse

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

Hermann Hesse

The river is everywhere.

Hermann Hesse

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

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 Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Joni Mitchell

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

Kevin Rudd

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.