Quotes and Sayings about Rivers

The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.

Tyler… you drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.

Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. And clouds do not swallow their own rain. What great ones have is always for the benefit of others.

Your fate, like a river, flows only in one direction.

Every river reaches the ocean in its own way.

The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice, but that some things stay the same only by changing.

A river is made drop by drop.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

What I love most about rivers is
You can't step in the same river twice
The water's always changing, always flowing
But people, I guess, can't live like that

Animals can survive for weeks without food, but merely a few days without water. There is no dish that could ever compare to pure, unadulterated water.

I don't like boats. I don't like water. I'm a man not a fish.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Shelby: "What can I get here that has no sugar, no carbs, and is fat free?"
Sam: "Water."

Does anyone else wake up in the middle of the night thirsty as hell, and water tastes like it came from God's personal pond?

Water, whether frozen or flowing, is life, and its currents run deep in us.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

The human world... it's a mess.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

The ocean is where I go
To lose my mind and find my soul

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
it's always our self we find in the sea.

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.

May all your blues be the ocean and the sky!

Right down here, the ocean has a depth of almost 4,000 meters. Man has mapped out every corner of this world. Been to the farthest deserts, the top of the highest mountains. But what's down there is still a mystery. A hidden world in the shadows.

The watery part of this world has a way of healing even the deepest of wounds.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Pocahontas: "It would've been better if we never met. None of this would've happened."
John Smith: "Pocahontas, look at me. I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you."

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart.

But then again I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.

Do you know why we keep going? Because what the hell else are we gonna do?

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

What do you and a black hole have in common? You both suck.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

No-one who wanders is every truly lost.

Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.

I am a Democrat because I believe in protecting freedom, fairness, families, and the future.

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Don't think, just do!

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Only love and death change all things.

There's no death for those who don't fear it.