River Quotes

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

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Heraclitus

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
J. Enoch Powell

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

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Edward F. Halifax

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
Granville Stanley Hall

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Antonio Porchia

No, I don’t want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public.
Joaquin Phoenix

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
Maurice Hinchey

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
Buffalo Bill

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim

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

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
Norman Maclean

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

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

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

Love is the river of life in the world.
Henry Ward Beecher

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
Fanny Kemble

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.
Terry Southern

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Zhuangzi

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
Leonardo DiCaprio

I like to draw and paint. It is a river to me.
John Lurie

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Thornton Wilder

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there’s only one river.
Matthew Fox

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
Mikhail Lermontov

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
Brian Clough