Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Stafford

You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

William Least Heat-Moon

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Will Eisner

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Wilbur Smith

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Zhuangzi

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

William Davenant

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

W. Somerset Maugham

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

Willie Nelson

I'm drowning in whiskey river.