Quotes
Quotes about Rivers
Note 1.Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi (The deepest rivers flow with the least sound).--Q. Curtius, vii. 4. 13.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.--William Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI. act iii. sc. i.
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.
Meadows trim with daisies pied,
Shallow brooks and rivers wide;
Towers and battlements it sees
Bosom'd high in tufted trees,
Where perhaps some beauty lies,
The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,--
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
All earth's full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.
Rivers are highways that move on, and bear us whither we wish to go.
The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt.
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers.
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea , at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Make me over, Mother April, When the sap begins to stir! When thy flowery hand delivers All the mountain-prisoned rivers, And thy great heart beats and quivers, To revive the days that were.
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
As she hears the confessions of all rivers those on the shore hear the sea.. accepting all she calls no thing heresy.
PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred sorrow rise To rivers of delight.
No trumpet-blast profound The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born; No bloody streamlet stained Earth's silver rivers on the sacred morn.
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars.... and they pass by themselves without wondering.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.
A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found, As if the world were in deep waters drowned.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
