Quotes about river
rivers flow fleeting
Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new. Ovid
rivers splits force
The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.
rivers environmental progress
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all. Paul Newman
rivers path needs
To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river. Matthew Fox
rivers source knows
A river reaches places its source never knows. Oswald Chambers
rivers water joy
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
rivers gossip water
Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways. Michael Korda
rivers water grace
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river! Mark Twain
rivers denial egyptian
Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.
rivers people care
there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things... Hans Blix
rivers village east
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. Jose Saramago
rivers wish skates
I wish I had a river I could skate away on? Joni Mitchell
rivers fire risk
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. Kevin Rudd
rivers knowing water
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together! Kenneth Grahame
rivers better-person morphing
Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on. Katie Aselton
rivers egypt denial
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. James Patterson
rivers rocks work-out
I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. Emile Hirsch
rivers taught depth
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
rivers
The river is everywhere.
rivers voice water
The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
rivers feet childhood
Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
rivers hands environmental
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
rivers flux all-things
All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river Heraclitus
rivers water flow
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
rivers steps
You can never step in the same river twice.
rivers feet water
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
rivers progress steps
Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
rivers water flow
All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
rivers substance steps
No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
rivers water flow
Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
rivers blue fiction
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. Henry James
rivers silence drink
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. Khalil Gibran
rivers borders fish-tanks
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. Norman MacCaig