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If you are looking for an amazing selection of river quotes you are in the right place.
Rivers are an incredible part of nature.
They carry incredible amounts of life and settlements have been built near them for thousands of years.
If you are lucky enough to live by a river, go and spend some time there once a week.
Reading quotes about rivers can be a great way to power you through the day.
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Right, let’s jump in and take a look at this list of river quotes.
Top 10 River Quotes
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.
Richard Rohr
I had no plans of any destination. I wish to flow like a river.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A river doesn’t just carry water, it carries life.
Amit Kalantri
Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is the less noise it makes.
Unknown
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.
A A Milne
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.
Edward Abbey
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.
Aldo Leopold
Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
Blaise Pascal
If the earth is a mother then rivers are her veins.
Amit Kalantri
One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.
Matthew Goldman
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When we save a river, we save a major part of an ecosystem, and we save ourselves as well because of our dependence – physical, economic, spiritual,on the water and its community of life. Tim Palmer
You can’t argue with a river – it is going to flow. You can dam it up, put it to useful purposes, you can deflect it, but you can’t argue with it.
Dean Acheson
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. Blaise Pascal
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The river has great wisdom and whispers its secrets to the hearts of men. Mark Twain
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
Unknown
A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean. Donald L. Hicks
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Rainer Maria Rilke
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. Franklin D. Roosevelt
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
Jim Watkins
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart. Roderick Haig-Brown
Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide. John Muir
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. John O’Donohue
The River… It’s my world, and I don’t want any other. What it hasn’t got is not worth having, and what it doesn’t know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we’ve had together!
Kenneth Grahame
Don’t push the river, it will flow. Don’t push the love, it will grow. Unknown
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. Lynn Noel
The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth. Joseph Conrad
The song of the river ends not at her banks, but in the hearts of those who have loved her.
Buffalo Joe
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers. Charles Kuralt
The river has taught me to listen, from it you will learn it as well. It knows everything, the river, everything can be learned from it. See, you’ve already learned this from the water too, that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depth. Herman Hesse
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.
Ted Turner
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven. David Paul Kirkpatrick
Inspirational River Quotes
A good river is nature’s life work in song. Mark Helprin
When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Heraclitus
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else. Hal Boyle
But the time has also come to identify and preserve free flowing stretches of our great scenic rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory. President Lyndon Johnson’
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.
Unknown
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes, so with time present. Leonardo da Vinci
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy. John Sawhill
Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation. Ernest Hemingway
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
Barry Lopez
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries. Brian Andreas
Rivers Never Go Reverse. So Try to Live Like a River. Forget your past and Focus on Your Future. Anonymous
There is no rushing a river. When you go there, you go at the pace of the water and that pace ties you into a flow that is older than life on this planet. Acceptance of that pace, even for a day, changes us, reminds us of other rhythms beyond the sound of our own heartbeats. Jeff Rennicke
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
Proverb
Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere. Emma Smith
The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart. Shozo Tanaka
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. Eartha Kitt
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.
William Whipple
The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that’s its nature. Kekla Magoon
But the river remains unchanged, sad, refusing rehabilitation. James Kirkup
Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.
Félix J. Palma
We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon
Love is the river of life in the world. Henry Ward Beecher
How should men know what is coming to pass within them, when there are no words to graps it?How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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. Jakob Bohme
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. Vinoba Bhave
Time Flows Away Like the Water in the River. Confucius
The river is everywhere.
Hermann Hesse
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Khalil Gibran
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Rumi
Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road. Bob Marshall
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
Maurice Hinchey
They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart. Anthony Liccione
I chatter, chatter as I flow to join the brimming river, for men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever. Alfred Tennyson
The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream. Cyril Connolly
Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life.
Unknown
We steer the boat, we don’t alter the river. J. Earp
Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country. Bob Shuster
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls rise over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. John Wesley Powell
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it’s a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it’s a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff. Alison Croggon
The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. Chinese Philosopher
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current how can he help others across? Buddha
Ask the river, where it comes from? You will get no answer. Ask the river, where is it going? You will get no answer, because the river lives inside this very moment; neither in the past nor in the future, in this very moment only! Mehmet Murat ildan
Motivational River Quotes
A river sings a holy song conveying the mysterious truth that we are a river, and if we are ignorant of this natural law, we are lost. Thomas Moore
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Paulo Coelho
The flowing river nonchalantly reminds us of life: flowing relentlessly; flowing purposelessly. Life without purpose. Girdhar Joshi
Rivers don’t drink their own waters; trees don’t eat their own fruits. The salt seasons the soup in order to have its purpose fulfilled. Live for others! Israelmore Ayivor
The sun shines not on us but in us. The Rivers flow not past, but through us. John Muir
Like a river down the gutter roars the rain, the welcome rain!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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. Khalil Gibran
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim. Lyndon B. Johnson
The river was beautiful and wise. There were the two of them being happy in a new way. For here, there was no man, no woman, no master, no yellow, no black, no white. We, we who were, we are the same no longer. David Paul Kirkpatrick
An individual human existence should be like a river.
Bertrand Russell
The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land. Lynn Culbreath Noel
A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself. Laura Gilpin
Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea? Haruki Murakami
Rivers have what man most respects and longs for in his own life and thought a capacity for renewal and replenishment, continual energy, creativity, cleansing.
John M. Kauffmann
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. Henry David Thoreau
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you. Kabir
A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer’s just a vessel that must follow where it goes. Garth Brooks
Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.
Henry David Thoreau
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. Norman Maclean
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief. John Milton
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. Proverb
The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
Chen Shui-bian
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. Michio Kaku
The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus. Michael Bassey Johnson
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
Leonardo DaVinci
The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. Paramahamsa Nithyananda
To Sum Up
Hopefully you enjoyed this big list of river quotes.
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Last Updated on May 30, 2021 by TheGrowthReactor
