(530 quotes found)
“Don't push the river; it flows by itself.”
Barry Stevens
“It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.”
Caryl P. Haskins
“If you ford the river in a crowd, the crocodiles won't get you”
Malagasy Proverb
“It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.”
Henry David Thoreau
“About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.”
Frank Yerby
“Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.”
Martin Friedman
“You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are continually flowing in.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
“By shallow rivers to whose falls / Melodious birds sing madrigals.”
Christopher Marlowe
“From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.”
Bible
“I am the shark among the fishes, and the Ganges among the rivers.”
Bhagavad Gita
