Quotes about River

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. Votes: 5

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

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

Cross the river by feeling for stones. Votes: 3

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

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

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

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

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

A river reaches places its source never knows. 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

By the river of forgetfulness, I found honesty. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead. 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

Time flows away like the water in the river. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The drop grows happy by losing itself in 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

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

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The same river can never be crossed twice. The flowing water has no memory of footprints." Votes: 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let go, because, they're gone, man. They're gone. Votes: 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below. 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 am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river. 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

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

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

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

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

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

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby? Maybe we'll never know. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

I like it when things crescendo to a huge moment like 'Hold Back the River.' Votes: 2

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry. Votes: 2

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings. Votes: 2

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers. Votes: 2

The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox. Votes: 2

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.' Votes: 2

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out. Votes: 2

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process. Votes: 1

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' Votes: 1

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free. Votes: 1

The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land. Votes: 1

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Votes: 1

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Votes: 1

I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful. Votes: 1

I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one. Votes: 1

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Votes: 1

Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly? Votes: 1

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. Votes: 1

It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special. Votes: 1

I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed. Votes: 1

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference. Votes: 1

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. Votes: 1

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.' Votes: 1

I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love. Votes: 1

What if River Phoenix had lived? Votes: 0

Misery is the River of the World Votes: 0

Do I look like the Green River Killer? Votes: 0

I used to waterski on the Niagara River. Votes: 0

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River. Votes: 0

The only water in the forest is the River. Votes: 0

River City Improv set the stage for my career. Votes: 0

Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River. Votes: 0

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River. Votes: 0

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'. Votes: 0

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. Votes: 0

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River. Votes: 0

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. Votes: 0

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. Votes: 0

Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come... Votes: 0

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares! Votes: 0

Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved. Votes: 0

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful. Votes: 0

In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned. Votes: 0

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion. Votes: 0

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River. Votes: 0

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River Votes: 0

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. Votes: 0

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. Votes: 0

On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made. Votes: 0

I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. Votes: 0

The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy. Votes: 0

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss. Votes: 0