Quotes about River

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. Votes: 6

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. Votes: 5

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. Votes: 4

The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate. Votes: 4

James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos. Votes: 4

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue. Votes: 4

The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run. Votes: 4

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Votes: 4

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. Votes: 4

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming. Votes: 4

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. Votes: 4

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river. Votes: 4

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. Votes: 4

The river is everywhere. Votes: 3

I'm drowning in whiskey river. Votes: 3

An ocean refuses no river. Votes: 3

Live like a mighty river. Votes: 3

Time is a river without banks. Votes: 3

Hope is a continuous flowing river. Votes: 3

Don't try to steer the river. Votes: 3

Pissing in a river, watching it rise. Votes: 3

Be a river - not a reservoir. Votes: 3

Be like a river. Be open. Flow. Votes: 3

Love is a river. Drink from it. Votes: 3

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed. Votes: 3

Love is the world's river of life Votes: 3

A river of words flowed between us. Votes: 3

Cross the river by feeling for stones. Votes: 3

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways. Votes: 3

Fire on anything that moves on the river. Votes: 3

Love without trust is a river without water. Votes: 3

Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter. Votes: 3

A mountaine and a river are good neighbours. Votes: 3

A river reaches places its source never knows. Votes: 3

By the river of forgetfulness, I found honesty. Votes: 3

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river. Votes: 3

A river without banks is a large puddle. Votes: 3

In a life properly lived, you're a river, Votes: 3

You cannot step into the same river twice. Votes: 3

Dip him in the river who loves water. Votes: 3

Denial is not just a river in Egypt. Votes: 3

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. Votes: 3

One cannot step twice in the same river Votes: 3

So don't send me up the river yet. Votes: 3

Don't push the river. Just go with it. Votes: 3

Time is a river, and books are boats. Votes: 3

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. Votes: 3

With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. Votes: 3

There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it. Votes: 3

Wise man and river; they both create new paths! Votes: 3

For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river. Votes: 3

An individual human existence should be like a river Votes: 3

I live in a van, down by the river! Votes: 3

I am not the river I am the net. Votes: 3

Be wild; that is how to clear the river. Votes: 3

Time flows away like the water in the river. Votes: 3

Love is the river of life in the world. Votes: 3

You can never step in the same river twice. Votes: 3

A good river is nature's life work in song. Votes: 3

A desert's a stupid place to put a river. Votes: 3

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead. Votes: 3

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion. Votes: 3

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining... Votes: 3

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears. Votes: 3

Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life. Votes: 3

Life in us is like the water in a river. Votes: 3

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river. Votes: 3

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water. Votes: 3

Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system. Votes: 3

Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free. Votes: 3

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is. Votes: 3

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river. Votes: 3

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. Votes: 3

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river. Votes: 3

Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river? Votes: 3

The river that flows in you also flows in me. Votes: 3

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing. Votes: 3

They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river. Votes: 3

Never test the depth of river with both the feet. Votes: 3

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is... Votes: 3

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. Votes: 3

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst. Votes: 3

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. Votes: 3

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river. Votes: 3

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river. Votes: 3

Only the river is free, always changing but always the same... Votes: 3

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow. Votes: 3

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. Votes: 3

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle. Votes: 3

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone. Votes: 3

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock. Votes: 3

Tears are just the overflow from the river-banks of the heart. Votes: 3

What you give away comes back to you in a river. Votes: 3

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river. Votes: 3

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. Votes: 3

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. Votes: 3

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. Votes: 3

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. Votes: 3

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. Votes: 3

I wish I had a river I could skate away on? Votes: 3

Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine. Votes: 3

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean. Votes: 3

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul. Votes: 3

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253) Votes: 3

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. Votes: 3

The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss Votes: 3

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever. Votes: 3

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar Votes: 3

A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing ... Votes: 3

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. Votes: 3

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. Votes: 3

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going. Votes: 3

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side. Votes: 3

Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge. Votes: 3

In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one. Votes: 3

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river. Votes: 3

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. Votes: 3

As the river enters into the ocean,so my heart touches Thee. Votes: 3

Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity. Votes: 3

The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are. Votes: 3

Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average. Votes: 3

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended. Votes: 3

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Votes: 3

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. Votes: 3

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. Votes: 3

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. Votes: 3

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Votes: 3

A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river. Votes: 3

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. Votes: 3

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential. Votes: 3

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished. Votes: 3

May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding. Votes: 3

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard. Votes: 3

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. Votes: 3

I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph. Votes: 3

The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me. Votes: 3

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea. Votes: 3

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee. Votes: 3

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Votes: 3

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God. Votes: 3

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river. Votes: 3

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. Votes: 3

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river. Votes: 3

A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas. Votes: 3

I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins. Votes: 3

before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow Votes: 3

Life is like a river: nothing is ever the same, even for an instant. Votes: 3

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it Votes: 3

A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness. Votes: 3

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim... Votes: 3

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. Votes: 3

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river. Votes: 3

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore. Votes: 3

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. Votes: 3

When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer. Votes: 3

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! Votes: 3

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. Votes: 3

You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you. Votes: 3

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. Votes: 3

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Votes: 3

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Votes: 3

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . . Votes: 3

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. Votes: 3

Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood, Votes: 3

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it Votes: 3

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. Votes: 3

You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream. Votes: 3

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you. Votes: 3

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new. Votes: 3

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. Votes: 3

As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you. Votes: 3

All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river Votes: 3

Talk not of the river or lake To those who have looked on the sea. Votes: 3

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years. Votes: 3

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water. Votes: 3

When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze. Votes: 3

I took a picture of a flooding river, hoping to get a beaver shot. Naughty. Votes: 3

Never duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river. Votes: 3

That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream. Votes: 3

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile. Votes: 3

Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river. Votes: 3

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river. Votes: 3

Hasten Little Maiden...stop and listenfor pearls of wisdomstop and listen as the river glistens... Votes: 3

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines? Votes: 3

To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things. Votes: 3

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Votes: 3

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it. Votes: 3

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Votes: 3

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows. Votes: 3

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself. Votes: 3

When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it! Votes: 3

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water. Votes: 3

Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes Votes: 3

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. Votes: 3

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. Votes: 3

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. Votes: 3

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul... Votes: 3

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river. Votes: 3

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods. Votes: 3

The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having... Votes: 3

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. Votes: 3

In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil! Votes: 3

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. Votes: 3

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you. Votes: 3

The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life. Votes: 3

Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment. Votes: 3

I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god Votes: 3

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. Votes: 3

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way. Votes: 3

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. Votes: 3

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Votes: 3

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. Votes: 3

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes. Votes: 3

Life with Osho to me is like a river: always moving, always changing course, always unpredictable. Votes: 3

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea. Votes: 3

And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond. Votes: 3

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system. Votes: 3

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. Votes: 3

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. Votes: 3

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. Votes: 3

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched. Votes: 3

Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? Votes: 3

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore. Votes: 3

By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole. Votes: 3

The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for? Votes: 3

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality. Votes: 3

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief. Votes: 3

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, Votes: 3

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead. Votes: 3

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks. Votes: 3

If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea. Votes: 3

The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them. Votes: 3

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river. Votes: 3

A primrose by the river's brim A yellow rose was to him. And it was nothing more Votes: 3

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. Votes: 3

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth. Votes: 3

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. Votes: 3

It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy. Votes: 3

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Votes: 3

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea. Votes: 3

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret? Votes: 3

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Votes: 3

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. Votes: 3

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. Votes: 3

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out. Votes: 3

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. Votes: 3

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river. Votes: 3

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Votes: 3

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Votes: 3

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns. Votes: 3

Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep. Votes: 3

if there weren't stones and rocks where the river passes through, the sound of water wouldn't be graceful. Votes: 3

Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. Votes: 3

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same. Votes: 3

You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT Votes: 3

The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus. Votes: 3

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them. Votes: 3

If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate. Votes: 3

Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. Votes: 3

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet. Votes: 3

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. Votes: 3

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea. Votes: 3

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. Votes: 3

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports." Votes: 3

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this. Votes: 3

The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff. Votes: 3

The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion Votes: 3

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. Votes: 3

Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. Votes: 3

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. Votes: 3

It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon. Votes: 3

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. Votes: 3

The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river. Votes: 3

Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. Votes: 3

There's music along the river For Love wanders there,Pale flowers on his mantle, Dark leaves on his hair." Votes: 3

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. Votes: 3

Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. Votes: 3

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets. Votes: 3

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout. Votes: 3

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow. Votes: 3

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. Votes: 3

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining, Votes: 3

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations. Votes: 3

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river. Votes: 3

First off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river. Votes: 3

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. Votes: 3

The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves. Votes: 3

You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow. Votes: 3

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed. Votes: 3

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Votes: 3

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Votes: 3

The spark of consciousness is reflected in the river, where a dance of infinite faces lined in profane lights. Votes: 3

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock. Votes: 3

We've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake. Votes: 3

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. Votes: 3

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that. Votes: 3

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere. Votes: 3

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state? Votes: 3

Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river,every motorcycle coming and going. Votes: 3

I meander and wander, like a lazy river. Gosh, why are some rivers so damn lazy? What, are they teenagers? Votes: 3

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. Votes: 3

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female. Votes: 3

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. Votes: 3

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. Votes: 3

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. Votes: 3

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart Votes: 3

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace. Votes: 3

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party. Votes: 3

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. Votes: 3

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars. Votes: 3

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government. Votes: 3

We are on the Colorado...that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river. Votes: 3

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation. Votes: 3

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. Votes: 3

The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source. Votes: 3

There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive. Votes: 3

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. Votes: 3

As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path. Votes: 3

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. Votes: 3

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. Votes: 3

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. Votes: 3

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. Votes: 3

Would you care to walk to the river?— -Miles “I would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber Votes: 3

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? Votes: 3

Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter. Votes: 3

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. Votes: 3

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since. Votes: 3

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven. Votes: 3

If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it. Votes: 3

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. Votes: 3

...you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed... Votes: 3

For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future. Votes: 3

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. Votes: 3

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. Votes: 3

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues Votes: 3

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. Votes: 3

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging. Votes: 3

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity. Votes: 3

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green. Votes: 3

A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time. Votes: 3

The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence. Votes: 3

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted. Votes: 3

Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again. Votes: 3

... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores. Votes: 3

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board). Votes: 3

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. Votes: 3

If you are open to receiving the essential nature of life, its intelligence will flow through you like a great river. Votes: 3

We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams. Votes: 3

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks. Votes: 3

You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows. Votes: 3

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing Votes: 3

My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home. Votes: 3

What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more. Votes: 3

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. Votes: 3

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable. Votes: 3

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal. Votes: 3

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out! Votes: 3

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. Votes: 3

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do. Votes: 3

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow. Votes: 3

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. Votes: 3

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine. Votes: 3

The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity. Votes: 3

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river. Votes: 3

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river. Votes: 3

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. Votes: 3

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever. Votes: 3

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. Votes: 3

She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it. Votes: 3

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. Votes: 3

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in Votes: 3

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. Votes: 3

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head. Votes: 3

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse. Votes: 3

The moon twangs its silver strings;The river swoons into town;The wind beds down in the pines,Covers itself with stars. Votes: 3

I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river. Votes: 3

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. Votes: 3

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity. Votes: 3

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river. Votes: 3

Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you. Votes: 3

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. Votes: 3

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. Votes: 3

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. Votes: 3

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart. Votes: 3

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Votes: 3

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. Votes: 3

Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below. Votes: 3

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously. Votes: 3

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river. Votes: 3

The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful. Votes: 3

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Votes: 3

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river. Votes: 3

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. Votes: 3

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive. Votes: 3

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. Votes: 3

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming. Votes: 3

Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice! Votes: 3

We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins Votes: 3

My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi River. Votes: 3

I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That's what I really wanna do. Votes: 3

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth. Votes: 3

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?' Votes: 3

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. Votes: 3

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders Votes: 3

That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit Votes: 3

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers. Votes: 3

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust. Votes: 3

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow. Votes: 3

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream. Votes: 3

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Votes: 3

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean. Votes: 3

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. Votes: 3

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer. Votes: 3

there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things... Votes: 3

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean. Votes: 3

Shall we gather at the river, Where bright angel feet have trod; With its crystal tide for ever, Flowing by the throne of God? Votes: 3

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers. Votes: 3

There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it. Votes: 3

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. Votes: 3

I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank. Votes: 3

Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee. Votes: 3

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river. Votes: 3

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore. Votes: 3

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed. Votes: 3

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. Votes: 3

What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is! Votes: 3

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong. Votes: 3

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins. Votes: 3

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. Votes: 3

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever! Votes: 3

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons. Votes: 3

Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part. Votes: 3

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust. Votes: 3

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons. Votes: 3

We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous. Votes: 3

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end. Votes: 3

Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation. Votes: 3

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here? Votes: 3

Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping. Votes: 3

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow. Votes: 3

Be patient. Always be kind. Stand in the middle of the river. Be prepared. It [success] will all come. Don't be in such a rush. Votes: 3

Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion. Votes: 3

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. Votes: 3

So we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light,Among the creatures of light, creatures of light. Votes: 3

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are. Votes: 3

Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now. Votes: 3

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. Votes: 3

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans. Votes: 3

There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry. Votes: 3

Excuse me for a moment, will ye. I think I have to talk to the river,' he said unsteadily and flopped over the side-rail. Votes: 3

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river. Votes: 3

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river. Votes: 3

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river. Votes: 3

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across? Votes: 3

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean. Votes: 3

Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river. Votes: 3

A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing. Votes: 3

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert Votes: 3

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, "” the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land. Votes: 3

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. Votes: 3

Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet! Votes: 3

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river. Votes: 3

Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life. Votes: 3

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river. Votes: 3

It is always easy to flow with the river and to run with the wind! But glory and honour are often not found in easy things! Votes: 3

I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens. Votes: 3

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. Votes: 3

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it. Votes: 3

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river. Votes: 3

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination. Votes: 3

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted. Votes: 3

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind. Votes: 3

Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin. Votes: 3

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood. Votes: 3

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when... Votes: 3

When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it and make money from it?" Votes: 3

"If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire, my dear friend, some fire!" Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into a river. Votes: 3

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music. Votes: 3

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing Votes: 3

He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too Votes: 3

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in. Votes: 3

Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way. Votes: 3

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it. Votes: 3

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned. Votes: 3

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. Votes: 3

I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day. Votes: 3

What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good. Votes: 3

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go. Votes: 3

The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks lake a lake! Votes: 3

There is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river. Votes: 3