Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Stafford

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

William Stafford

You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

William Least Heat-Moon

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.

William Whipple

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

Will Eisner

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Rudolfo Anaya

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

W. H. Auden

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

William Christopher Handy

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

Vash Young

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

Roberta Flack

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

William Davenant

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

W. Somerset Maugham

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

Willie Nelson

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

Richard Rohr

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.

Rupert Brooke

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

Rumi

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.

Ron Kind

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

Rush Limbaugh

Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river, too.