50 River Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing river Quotes and Sayings.
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Short River Sayings
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” —Jim Watkins
“The river is everywhere.” —Hermann Hesse
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” —A A Milne
“A good river is nature’s life work in song.” —Mark Helprin
“I had no plans of any destination. I wish to flow like a river.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.” —Proverb
“Don’t push the river, it will flow. Don’t push the love, it will grow.” —Unknown
“A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love is the river of life in the world.” —Henry Ward Beecher
“A river doesn’t just carry water, it carries life.” —Amit Kalantri
“No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.” —Proverb
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” —Khalil Gibran
“Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is the less noise it makes.” —Unknown
“The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.” —Unknown
“Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.” —Blaise Pascal
“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.” —Paulo Coelho
“If the earth is a mother then rivers are her veins.” —Amit Kalantri
“An individual human existence should be like a river.” —Bertrand Russell
“The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.” —Shozo Tanaka
“We steer the boat, we don’t alter the river.” —J. Earp
“A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.” —Donald L. Hicks
“But the river remains unchanged, sad, refusing rehabilitation.” —James Kirkup
River Sayings
“I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.” —Edward Abbey
“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” —Emma Smith
“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
“Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.” —Henry David Thoreau
“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
“In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.” —John Sawhill
“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
“To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.” —Barry Lopez
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” —Heraclitus
“The river has great wisdom and whispers its secrets to the hearts of men.” —Mark Twain
“He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.” —Blaise Pascal
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.” —William Whipple
“Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.” —Francis Bacon
“Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.” —Bob Shuster
“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
Top Ten River Sayings
Here you will find top ten river sayings selected by our team.
- “A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” —Khalil Gibran
- “Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” —Emma Smith
- “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
- “He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.” —Blaise Pascal
- “Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.” —Henry David Thoreau
- “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
- A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” —Jim Watkins
- “You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.” —Paulo Coelho
- “A river doesn’t just carry water, it carries life.” —Amit Kalantri
