Best rivers & currents Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.”

Easy Nice Findings Rivers Currents Carrie

Author:Donald Miller

“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.”

Knows Looks I Can Turns Waiting Silence Rivers Silent Currents Miles Stillness Miles Away

Book:Stories that could be true: new and collected poems

Source: Stories that could be true: new and collected poems

“One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.”

Knows Way Turns White Travel Rivers Currents Rushing Foam

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.”

Source: The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform

“Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.”

Source Ocean Rivers Constant Currents Nobility Pacific Termination Pacific Ocean

Book:Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

“If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.”

Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

“The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.”

Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus

“Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!”

Dark Sweet Rivers Towns Green Ancient Wave Currents Towers Sunny Dimples

Author:Horace Binney Wallace

“An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a 'cloop!' and the May-fly was visible no more”

May Young Water Seeing Blood Sea Fashion Rivers Fishes Currents Boat Visible Lakes Fishing Affected Intoxicated Swirls

Book:The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work

Source: The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work

“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.”

Source: The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures

“And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.”

Fall Water Sea Sky Rivers Sight Depth Fishes Currents Boat Instant Streams Visible Lakes Fishing Silver Flash Lightning Rainbow Jewels Gleam Dainty

Author:John Buchan

“The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.”

Source: Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder

“There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.”

“The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.”

Ifs Way Strong Causes Nature Movement Reflection Rivers Currents One Way Streams Uneasy

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.”

Sea Teaching Rivers Currents Swim Great Teaching

Author:Rajneesh

“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.”

Time Strong Events Rivers Sight Currents Passing Passings Time Passing Swept Away Passing By Passing It

Author:Marcus Aurelius

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

Doe Wisdom Rivers Currents Reactions Boat

Author:Victor Hugo

“Some people just think utopians are idiots who are imagining rivers of candy and not really engaging with the world's ills, and sometimes that's surely the case, but I think that imagining the perfected society is a way of expressing your disgust with the current state of affairs.”

People Thinking World Way Sometimes States Cases Rivers Affair Currents Idiot Disgusting Engaging Candy

Author:Christine Jennings

“I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data would be like swimming upstream against the current. That doesn't make sense. What's logical, based on the strength of the case for Christ, is to swim in the same direction the evidence is pointing by putting your trust in Jesus as your forgiver and leader.”

Would Be Moving Jesus Christ Leader Cases Evidence Rivers Currents Deny Data Make Sense Logical Swim Swimming Pointing Deities Swimming Upstream

Author:Lee Strobel

“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. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”

People Thinking Love Trying Two Ends Hard Together Moving Strong Water Forever Too Much Our Lives Letting Go Rivers Shame Currents Holding On Let Me Go Together Forever Never Let Me Go

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.”

Moments Stories Joy Lying Turns Waiting Our Lives Magic Pages Rivers Currents Dawn Each Day Twists Great Joy

Author:David Almond

“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

Home Acceptance Letting Go Rivers Currents Swimming Let It Go

Author:Joanne Harris

“Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.”

Ifs Way Ends Dream Life Is Steps Feet Huge Rivers Bigger Aim Currents Life Is Like Crossings Small Steps Bigger Dreams

Author:Louis Sachar

“Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. 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.”

Source: Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

“...a river season will last as long as it takes you to reach your new place. If you get into the river and let it take you where you need to be, your river season will last an afternoon. But if you fear change and struggle and hold on to the rocks, the river season will last and last. It will not end until your body becomes exhausted, your grip weakens, your hands slide off the rocks and the current takes you to your new place.”

Ifs Needs Long Ends Body Hands Lasts Struggle Rocks Rivers Seasons Currents Your Body Afternoon Exhausted Slides New Places

Book:The Waterproof Bible

Source: The Waterproof Bible

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

Secret Strange Rivers Curiosity Currents Sail Rumor Port Sped

Author:Will Eisner

“You're not honey. Your'e wine. You're the deepest, darkest shadow under a tree on a blazing day. You're strong and hard, coursing like a current at the bottom of a river.”

Hard Strong Tree Shadow Rivers Wine Bottom Currents Honey Blazing

Author:Cate Tiernan

“I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank”

Want Feels Has Beens Sides Standing Rivers Currents Swim Frank Floats

Author:Nancy Horan

“By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.”

Ifs Heart Would Be Pain Fall Water Forget Rocks Tears My Heart Bird Rivers Down And Longing Currents Sat Legends Transformed Insects Feathers

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.”

“I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.”

Knows Reason Hands Lines Imagine Mines Creatures Approach Rivers Crosses Mirrors Currents Creator Toes Forbidden Puppets Plunge

Author:Paulo Coelho

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

Knowing Missing Wind Rivers Currents Sail Pulling

Author:Rumi

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”

Past Time Water Secret Sea Source Mountain Ocean Mouths Shadow Rivers Fishes Currents Boat Lakes Fishing Waterfalls Siddhartha Ferry

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.”

Ifs Rivers Dear Currents Wide Relax Leafs Trembling

Book:Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)

Source: Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)

“I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.”

Air Cold Garden Rivers Currents Paris Museums Hunting Mice Palaces Carter Rooftops Louvre Cold Air

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.”

Giving Whole Running Time Three Sea Rivers Currents Dimensions Jordan Three Dimensions

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Sea. It is the Gulf Stream.”

Science Water Failing Sea Cold Ocean Mouths Rivers Bottom Currents Warm Streams Mexico Flood Fountain Drought Arctic Overflow Cold Water Ocean Exploration Gulf Of Mexico

Book:The Physical Geography of the Sea

Source: The Physical Geography of the Sea

“Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation, so that each moment you are at home, at ease, at peace with existence.”

Trying Moments Home Moving Existence Rivers Absolutes Currents Faster Ease Relaxation

Author:Rajneesh

“Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake.”

Way Two Body Action Science Strong Force Secret Fire Sea Movement Wind Rain Rivers Wave Currents Forests Ice Internals Flood Two Ways Earthquakes Geology Forest Fires Strong Winds

Author:Mikhail Lomonosov

“Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.”

Thinking Knows Spiritual Forget Flow Rivers Eternity Currents Abandon Inward Decree

Book:Willow: a novel

Source: Willow: a novel

“Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current.”

Inspirational Soul Moving Joy Break Rivers Pressure Currents Your Soul Freshness

Author:Coleman Barks

“People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.”

People Trying Use Purpose Enjoy Focus Movement Adventure Skills Rivers Currents Abandon Have Faith Flexibility Rushing Swimmer

Book:Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed

Source: Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed

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