236 River Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Morning History Water President Top One Morning Would Potomac River Headline Read Walked Afternoon Across Swim

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. Mark Twain

Denial River Egypt Just

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. Paulo Coelho

You Staying River Drown Falling

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

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. Ross Perot

Politics Man Says Dirty River Up Who Activist

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Marcus Aurelius

Time Events Strong Will Too Sight Brought River Takes Sooner Sort Another Passing Than Current Place Swept Away Thing

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Blaise Pascal

War Me Man Other Side Mine Ruler Though River He Him Stupider Because Quarrel His Than Anything Lives Right

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. Gladys Taber

Today Christmas Time Happy Tomorrow Past Yesterday Those Reliving River Hours Mean Creating Should Bridge Bridges Need Flows

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

You Path Right Track Wind Own Bend Bending Constantly Staying Deter Following Never River Know Track Go Up Going Where Anyone Turning Means Your Right

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne

Life Love Thankful Hope Thanksgiving Fear Too Much Men Free Somewhere Whatever Living Too Winds Rise No Life Never River Safe Dead Up Thank Gods May Much Sea Even Brief Ever Lives Set

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference. Jane Fonda

Positive You People World Made Community Out Kind Impact Drifting River Instead Feel Leaf Along Come Like Around Understand How Go Difference Across Who

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. Cordell Hull

You Crossed Alligator Never River Until Insult After

Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land. Joseph B. Wirthlin

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. Saint Teresa of Avila

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river. Jim Harrison

Beautiful You Unhappy Big River Middle

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. Michelle Williams

Time You Heart Grief Strange Changing Worse Say Ways Would Some Someone More River Miss Like Because Always Passes Optimistic Optimistic Person Person Gets Just Moving Mean Strange Thing Thing

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. Victor Hugo

Prevent River Reaction Does Current Going Which Against Boat Flowing

I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love. Arundhati Roy

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 ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. John Wesley Powell

Ride Walls Unknown Channel Distance Run River Over Know Well Falls Rocks May Explore Conjecture Many Things

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