True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Votes: 4
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxPuberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. Votes: 4
G. Stanley HallI've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. Votes: 3
Steven MorrisseyThere is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side. Votes: 3
Clement of AlexandriaEvery great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanThere is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. Votes: 3
Ian SomerhalderFame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. Votes: 3
William DavenantYou never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream. Votes: 3
Donald KeoughThe climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. Votes: 3
Terry Tempest WilliamsMutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. Votes: 3
Alain-Rene LesageA mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness. Votes: 3
James R. SwartzStanding, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! Votes: 3
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIndeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonNever duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river. Votes: 3
Farrah GrayThat's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream. Votes: 3
Jon ForemanFine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river. Votes: 3
Garth NixLove cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Votes: 3
Paulo CoelhoA nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water. Votes: 3
James SchuylerWho publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines? Votes: 3
John MuirHasten Little Maiden...stop and listenfor pearls of wisdomstop and listen as the river glistens... Votes: 3
MuseHowever long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile. Votes: 3
Ousmane SembeneLife with Osho to me is like a river: always moving, always changing course, always unpredictable. Votes: 3
MilarepaSuicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes Votes: 3
Kay Redfield JamisonThe Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. Votes: 3
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafI had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. Votes: 3
William Henry AshleyAnd the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond. Votes: 3
Christopher PaoliniThe river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having... Votes: 3
Kenneth GrahameDon't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river. Votes: 3
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows. Votes: 3
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe same river can never be crossed twice. The flowing water has no memory of footprints." Votes: 3
Robert McCammonWhen a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it! Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanA river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself. Votes: 3
Laura GilpinWe walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. Votes: 3
Sue Monk KiddThe river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water. Votes: 3
William WhippleYou do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. Votes: 3
Antonio PorchiaOver the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. Votes: 3
Stephen CraneThe river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul... Votes: 3
Hermann HesseFain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. Votes: 3
Baron de MontesquieuDon't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods. Votes: 3
Wendell BerryIn the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil! Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanYour heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment. Votes: 3
Sri ChinmoyHow could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. Votes: 3
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyIf you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way. Votes: 3
James AltucherA real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes. Votes: 3
Tony GaskinsAway down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore. Votes: 3
Robert Louis StevensonEven when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched. Votes: 3
Izumi ShikibuThe vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeThey've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system. Votes: 3
John AndersonI was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality. Votes: 3
Patricia BriggsBy perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole. Votes: 3
Vaclav HavelIn Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. Votes: 3
Janet EchelmanGod is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. Votes: 3
Meister EckhartA primrose by the river's brim A yellow rose was to him. And it was nothing more Votes: 3
William WordsworthHistory is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead. Votes: 3
Wilbur SmithTo take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Votes: 3
Clifton FadimanUntil I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river. Votes: 3
Mark TwainNever try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. Votes: 3
Milton FriedmanThe moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for? Votes: 3
Ueda AkinariYou may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth. Votes: 3
George HerbertThe river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them. Votes: 3
LaoziIn Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, Votes: 3
Janet EchelmanTo take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Votes: 3
Clifton FadimanNothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks. Votes: 3
Barry N. MalzbergIf I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret? Votes: 3
Sarah McLachlanTo put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. Votes: 3
Barry LopezHe that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea. Votes: 3
Michel de MontaigneDepending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Votes: 3
Bill GatesLife is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep. Votes: 3
William Batchelder GreenePeople find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out. Votes: 3
Art LinkletterFame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Votes: 3
Francis BaconI've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns. Votes: 3
Daniel WoodrellIf my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. Votes: 3
Enoch PowellYou never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same. Votes: 3
Jacques BarzunYou're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT Votes: 3
Rachel Renée RussellThe only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus. Votes: 3
Michael Bassey JohnsonYou throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them. Votes: 3
Ann PatchettI just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet. Votes: 3
Van MorrisonRumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea. Votes: 3
Antoine RivarolThe river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this. Votes: 3
HeraclitusPleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. Votes: 3
Minette WaltersLife is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. Votes: 3
Kamal RavikantIf life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate. Votes: 3
Orrin WoodwardThe river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river. Votes: 3
Vitor BelfortSpirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. Votes: 3
Gregory CorsoEloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. Votes: 3
Benjamin DisraeliEvery so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. Votes: 3
Louise ErdrichAlways a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets. Votes: 3
Cecelia AhernHiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Votes: 3
William O. DouglasThe headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. Votes: 3
Bertolt BrechtOnly when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout. Votes: 3
AshantiSometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river. Votes: 3
Jodi PicoultYou couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow. Votes: 3
David WroblewskiTime was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow. Votes: 3
Stephen KingWho looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed. Votes: 3
HeraclitusTo know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock. Votes: 3
Ursula K. Le GuinFirst off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river. Votes: 3
Chris FarleyWe've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake. Votes: 3
Jennifer Love HewittVirtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. Votes: 3
Owen FelthamIf somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it. Votes: 3
Taylor SwiftThere is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven. Votes: 3
David Paul KirkpatrickIf I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. Votes: 3
Ruta SepetysWould you care to walk to the river? -Miles âI would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber Votes: 3
Patricia Grassoi have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. Votes: 3
David LevithanI was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since. Votes: 3
Sam CookeI'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. Votes: 3
Garth BrooksThere's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive. Votes: 3
Marcus LuttrellBirds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. Votes: 3
Rebecca WestAs you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path. Votes: 3
George CarlinThe most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source. Votes: 3
Clarence H. BurnsA river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. Votes: 3
George William CurtisWell I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart Votes: 3
Tom WaitsA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time. Votes: 3
Matthew ArnoldNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. Votes: 3
HeraclitusMy breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home. Votes: 3
Else Lasker-Schuler...you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed... Votes: 3
John GeddesI know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. Votes: 3
ZhuangziNow God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal. Votes: 3
Alan PatonThe river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues Votes: 3
Richard DawkinsA river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. Votes: 3
Norman MacleanI need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river. Votes: 3
Dawna MarkovaThe Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.
Swami NithyanandaToday, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
Maya AngelouMr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.
Robert A. BradyHe who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
Jim Davis