Top Rivers Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Rivers quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Paullina Simons
Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.
- Paullina Simons
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Image of Rachel Carson
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
- Rachel Carson
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Image of Beth Kephart
You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.
- Beth Kephart
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Image of John Betjeman
Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.
- John Betjeman
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Image of Izaak Walton
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
- Izaak Walton
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Image of Gary Paulsen
Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it
- Gary Paulsen
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Image of Edward Abbey
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
- Edward Abbey
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Image of Merle Shain
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.
- Merle Shain
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Image of F.B. Meyer
The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.
- F.B. Meyer
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Image of Heraclitus
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.
- Heraclitus
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Image of Ali Smith
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.
- Ali Smith
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Image of Mary Renault
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
- Mary Renault
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Image of 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 Stafford
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Image of Elizabeth George Speare
All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.
- Elizabeth George Speare
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Image of Gretel Ehrlich
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.
- Gretel Ehrlich
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Image of Henri Bergson
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
- Henri Bergson
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Image of Wilbur Smith
History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
- Wilbur Smith
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Image of John Moody
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.
- John Moody
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Image of Ian Somerhalder
The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.
- Ian Somerhalder
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Image of Félix J. Palma
Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.
- Félix J. Palma
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Image of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river.
- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
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Image of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.
- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
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Image of Alasdair Gray
But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—
- Alasdair Gray
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Image of David R. Brower
There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.
- David R. Brower
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Image of Bryan Lee O'Malley
I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck
- Bryan Lee O'Malley
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Image of Deng Xiaoping
Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.
- Deng Xiaoping
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Image of Herbert Simon
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.
- Herbert Simon
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Image of William Batchelder Greene
Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.
- William Batchelder Greene
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Image of Christopher Buckley
One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.
- Christopher Buckley
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Image of Patricia Grasso
Would you care to walk to the river?” -Miles “I would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber
- Patricia Grasso
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Image of Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.
- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Image of Nancy Horan
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank
- Nancy Horan
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Image of Jim Wallis
Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.
- Jim Wallis
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Image of Chief Seattle
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.
- Chief Seattle
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Image of Rudolfo Anaya
I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.
- Rudolfo Anaya
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Image of Clement of Alexandria
There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.
- Clement of Alexandria
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Image of Michael Drayton
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.
- Michael Drayton
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Image of G. Edward Griffin
And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money.
- G. Edward Griffin
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Image of Prince William
The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.
- Prince William
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Image of Thomas McGuane
Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.
- Thomas McGuane
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Image of 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.
- Danielle Steel
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Image of Ousmane Sembene
However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.
- Ousmane Sembene
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Image of Kurt Lewin
When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.
- Kurt Lewin
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Image of Donald Keough
You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream.
- Donald Keough
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Image of Anaximenes of Miletus
the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.
- Anaximenes of Miletus
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Image of John Fogerty
All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.
- John Fogerty
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Image of Ashanti
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
- Ashanti
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Image of Ashanti
Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.
- Ashanti
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Image of Oren Lyons
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.
- Oren Lyons
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