Rivers Quotes - Page 2

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

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

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.

I think of the love of God as a great river, pouring through us even as the waters pour through our ravine at floodtime. Nothing can keep this love from pouring through us, except of course our own blocking of the river. Do you sometimes feel that you have got to the end of your love for someone who refuses and repulses you? Such a thought is folly, for one cannot come to the end of what one has not got. We have no store of love at all. We are not jugs, we are riverbeds.

Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

A man of wisdom delights in water.

Nature … is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.