True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Votes: 4
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxPuberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. Votes: 4
G. Stanley HallIf life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate. Votes: 4
Orrin WoodwardThe river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river. Votes: 4
Vitor BelfortThere is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side. Votes: 3
Clement of AlexandriaI've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. Votes: 3
Steven MorrisseyEvery great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanThere is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. Votes: 3
Ian SomerhalderMutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. Votes: 3
Alain-Rene LesageFame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. Votes: 3
William DavenantIndeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream. Votes: 3
Donald KeoughA mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness. Votes: 3
James R. SwartzThe climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. Votes: 3
Terry Tempest WilliamsStanding, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! Votes: 3
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water. Votes: 3
James SchuylerLove cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Votes: 3
Paulo CoelhoHowever long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile. Votes: 3
Ousmane SembeneFine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river. Votes: 3
Garth NixNever duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river. Votes: 3
Farrah GrayThat's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream. Votes: 3
Jon ForemanWho publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines? Votes: 3
John MuirHasten Little Maiden...stop and listenfor pearls of wisdomstop and listen as the river glistens... Votes: 3
MuseIn the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil! Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanYou do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. Votes: 3
Antonio PorchiaFain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. Votes: 3
Baron de MontesquieuHow could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. Votes: 3
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyIf you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way. Votes: 3
James AltucherOver the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. Votes: 3
Stephen CraneA real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes. Votes: 3
Tony GaskinsYour heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment. Votes: 3
Sri ChinmoyThe river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul... Votes: 3
Hermann HesseDon't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods. Votes: 3
Wendell BerryA river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself. Votes: 3
Laura GilpinSuicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes Votes: 3
Kay Redfield JamisonThe Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. Votes: 3
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafI had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. Votes: 3
William Henry AshleyWe walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. Votes: 3
Sue Monk KiddWhen a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it! Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanDon't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river. Votes: 3
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having... Votes: 3
Kenneth GrahameThe river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water. Votes: 3
William WhippleVery hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows. Votes: 3
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAnd the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond. Votes: 3
Christopher PaoliniLife with Osho to me is like a river: always moving, always changing course, always unpredictable. Votes: 3
MilarepaGod is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. Votes: 3
Meister EckhartHe that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea. Votes: 3
Michel de MontaigneTo put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. Votes: 3
Barry LopezIf I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret? Votes: 3
Sarah McLachlanTo take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Votes: 3
Clifton FadimanTo take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Votes: 3
Clifton FadimanYou may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth. Votes: 3
George HerbertA primrose by the river's brim A yellow rose was to him. And it was nothing more Votes: 3
William WordsworthUntil I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river. Votes: 3
Mark TwainNever try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. Votes: 3
Milton FriedmanThe river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them. Votes: 3
LaoziNothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks. Votes: 3
Barry N. MalzbergHistory is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead. Votes: 3
Wilbur SmithThey've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system. Votes: 3
John AndersonEven when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched. Votes: 3
Izumi ShikibuIn Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. Votes: 3
Janet EchelmanIn Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, Votes: 3
Janet EchelmanBy perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole. Votes: 3
Vaclav HavelI was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality. Votes: 3
Patricia BriggsThe vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeThe moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for? Votes: 3
Ueda AkinariAway down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore. Votes: 3
Robert Louis StevensonYou're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT Votes: 3
Rachel Renée RussellThe only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus. Votes: 3
Michael Bassey JohnsonYou throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them. Votes: 3
Ann PatchettI just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet. Votes: 3
Van MorrisonRumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea. Votes: 3
Antoine RivarolThe river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this. Votes: 3
HeraclitusYou never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same. Votes: 3
Jacques BarzunPleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. Votes: 3
Minette WaltersLife is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. Votes: 3
Kamal RavikantIf my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. Votes: 3
Enoch PowellLife is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep. Votes: 3
William Batchelder GreeneDepending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Votes: 3
Bill GatesPeople find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out. Votes: 3
Art LinkletterFame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Votes: 3
Francis BaconI've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns. Votes: 3
Daniel WoodrellFirst off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river. Votes: 3
Chris FarleyTo know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock. Votes: 3
Ursula K. Le GuinWho looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonHiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Votes: 3
William O. DouglasYou couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow. Votes: 3
David WroblewskiOnly when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout. Votes: 3
AshantiTime was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow. Votes: 3
Stephen KingVirtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. Votes: 3
Owen FelthamSometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river. Votes: 3
Jodi PicoultNo same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed. Votes: 3
HeraclitusWe've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake. Votes: 3
Jennifer Love HewittThe headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. Votes: 3
Bertolt BrechtAlways a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets. Votes: 3
Cecelia AhernSpirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. Votes: 3
Gregory CorsoEvery so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. Votes: 3
Louise ErdrichEloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. Votes: 3
Benjamin DisraeliWell I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart Votes: 3
Tom WaitsA river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. Votes: 3
George William CurtisAs you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path. Votes: 3
George CarlinI was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since. Votes: 3
Sam CookeIf somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it. Votes: 3
Taylor SwiftThere is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven. Votes: 3
David Paul KirkpatrickIf I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. Votes: 3
Ruta SepetysWould you care to walk to the river? -Miles âI would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber Votes: 3
Patricia Grassoi have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. Votes: 3
David LevithanI'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. Votes: 3
Garth BrooksThere's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive. Votes: 3
Marcus LuttrellBirds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. Votes: 3
Rebecca WestThe most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source. Votes: 3
Clarence H. BurnsA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time. Votes: 3
Matthew ArnoldNow God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal. Votes: 3
Alan PatonMy breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home. Votes: 3
Else Lasker-SchulerI know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. Votes: 3
ZhuangziNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. Votes: 3
Heraclitus...you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed... Votes: 3
John GeddesThe river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues Votes: 3
Richard DawkinsA river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. Votes: 3
Norman MacleanI need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river. Votes: 3
Dawna MarkovaThe Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.
Swami NithyanandaToday, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
Maya AngelouMr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.
Robert A. BradyHe who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
Jim DavisIt's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon. Votes: 3 Sam Pressman
The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate. Votes: 3 William Henry Ashley
I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her. Votes: 1 Joan Rivers
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands. Votes: 1 Louis Bacon
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River. Votes: 1 Karl Marlantes
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. Votes: 3 Horace
Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end. Votes: 3 Louis Sachar
You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT Votes: 3 Rachel Renée Russell
I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River. Votes: 2 Trygve Lie
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically. Votes: 3 Stephen Kinzer
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. Votes: 1 Joan Rivers
In the spring of 1968, The Beatles and I were invited by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to travel to Riskikesh, India. Riskikesh has been an important spiritual place to many millions of people over the years. It is situated where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas, and to be in that atmosphere was something incredibly special. Votes: 1 Mike Love
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river. Votes: 2 Simone Schwarz-Bart
Quiet Days, they look at you, and you will become one with the holy river - nature forms a symbiotic relationship - absolute infinity, truly found, in harmonious caressing arms. Votes: 3 Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind. Votes: 2 Billy Joel
Like a river flows surely to the sea/Darling so it goes/Some things are meant to be/Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can't help falling in love with you. Votes: 3 Elvis Presley
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. Votes: 6 Maya Angelou
Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares! Votes: 1 Buzz Aldrin
We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity. Votes: 2 Jay Weatherill
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. Votes: 1 Joan Rivers
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants. Votes: 3 Carol P. Christ
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. Votes: 1 John Moody
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 Lyndon B. Johnson
For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name. Votes: 1 Rebecca MacKinnon
Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process. Votes: 1 Ted Nugent
I myself was born beside a river - the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure and a deep sense of homecoming. Votes: 1 Edward Rutherfurd
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river. Votes: 2 William Henry Ashley
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 Joan Rivers
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick. Votes: 2 Boris Johnson
Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. Votes: 2 Clive Anderson
Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. Votes: 3 Clive Anderson
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands. Votes: 1 Louis Bacon
The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target. Votes: 1 Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. Votes: 3 Vinoba Bhave
When I heard 'Moon River', at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to the words and realized this song was about Huck Finn. I just love the words, that it's kind of you and me against the world, and we're going to make it together. Votes: 1 Drew Holcomb
New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time. Votes: 1 Bill Dedman
I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. Votes: 1 Gore Vidal
When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers. Votes: 1 Rory Stewart
I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea. Votes: 1 Lucy Larcom
I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. Votes: 1 Emile Hirsch
I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs. Votes: 1 Trent Reznor
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 Mehmet Murat ildan
Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people. Votes: 1 Tom Felton
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph. Votes: 0 Natalie Dormer
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. Votes: 3 Ross Perot
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 Augusto De Luca
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. Votes: 3 Cyril Connolly
For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name. Votes: 1 Rebecca MacKinnon