Quotes about rivers
rivers insanity flow
Insanity makes the rivers flow. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
rivers fire building
I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out! Anthony Horowitz
rivers vanity life-is-like
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. Alexander Pope
rivers giving surrender
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. Debbie Ford
rivers house sitting
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you. Duke of Wellington
rivers heaven grace
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. Dante Alighieri
rivers sitting tipping
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. Cyril Connolly
rivers one-day want
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
rivers people forever
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...
rivers anxiety trying
Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river. Deepak Chopra
rivers passed-away mets
I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too. Amy Schumer
rivers brazil pounds
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. Anthony Bourdain
rivers awareness
Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is. Ram Dass
rivers trout peculiar
What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. William Shakespeare
rivers water flow
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
rivers flow admiration
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
rivers individual should
An individual human existence should be like a river Bertrand Russell
rivers fire suffering
A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
rivers flow surprise
Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. John O'Donohue
rivers flow may
May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding.
rivers east railroads
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.
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 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 silence drink
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. Khalil Gibran
rivers community balance
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development. Lyndon B. Johnson
rivers land forever
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands. Louis Bacon
rivers water pieces
We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there. Malala Yousafzai