(530 quotes found)
“You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
“See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.”
Socrates
“Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.”
Crystal Middlemas
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
Winnie the Pooh
“I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.”
Mitch Hedberg
“You and I can turn and lookat the silent river and wait. We knowthe current is there, hidden; and thereare comings and goings from miles awaythat hold the stillness exactly before us.What the river says, that is what I say.”
William Stafford
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”
Norman Maclean
“You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.”
Indian Proverb
“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.”
Dr. Richard Selzer
“When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.”
Mark Twain