Rivers Quotes

• In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

  

  Edwin Newman
  • Rivers
  • Reached
  • Boiling

• Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Move
  • Rivers
  • Roads

• While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Progress
  • Should
  • Halt

• I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.

  

  Barbara Lewis
  • Words
  • Sky
  • Rivers

• Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not oceans or stars. i would like to tell her this but i think she already knows.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • She

• Only the river is free, always changing but always the same.

  

  Raymond Sokolov
  • Rivers

• If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Writing
  • Rivers

• 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 Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • People
  • Water
  • Feelings

• Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.

  

  Karen Cushman
  • People
  • Family
  • Home

• There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Names
  • Fingers
  • Rivers

• The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Remember
  • Fall
  • Sea

• Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Tea
  • Drink
  • Cups

• Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • Water
  • Air

• When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Fire
  • Luck

• Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.

  

  Michelle Paver
  • Heart
  • Happens
  • Vengeance

• The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Events
  • Rivers
  • Springs

• Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

  

  Willy Ley
  • Ideas
  • Rivers

• A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

  

  Melody Carlson
  • Swimming
  • Rivers

• Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

  

  Charles Kellogg
  • Past
  • Influence
  • Mountain

• Deep rivers run quiet.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Run
  • Quiet
  • Rivers

• Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play; civilizations emerged next to rivers in China, India, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. They sustain life and bring death and destruction. They are ferocious at times; gentle at times. They are placid and mean. They trigger conflict and delineate boundaries. Rivers are the stuff of metaphor and fable, painting and poetry. Rivers unite and divide - a thread that runs from source to exhausted release.

  

  Edward Gargan
  • Death
  • Interesting
  • Middle East

• I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Rain
  • Rivers
  • Lightning

• Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Paradise
  • Believed
  • Confluence

• Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Direction
  • Streams

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