River Quotes

River Quote of the day

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

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

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

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.

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

A good river is nature's life work in song.

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.

I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.

Fill this city of mine with people as, You filled the river with fishes O Lord.

Remember the acorn

The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland.

A river starts by longing for the ocean...

Whenever a river reaches the ocean, it waits to go back..

The river overflows, not the sun. (Déborde le fleuve, - Pas le soleil)

Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.

Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!

I decided to write the book I wanted to read

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

Every dance you make belongs to you. It is part of your collection. When you think of it like that, you'll want to make your next routine the best you've ever made!