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Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life. – Micron
If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you. – Heraclitus
Only when the last tree has been cut down Only when the last river has been poisoned Only when the last fish has been caught Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. – Cree Indian Prophecy
Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. – Cree Indian Prophecy
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
You have to sit by the side of a river for a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth. – Guy Kawasaki
All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster! – Mehmet Murat ildan
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . .In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies. – Virgil
Ask the river, where it comes from? You will get no answer. Ask the river, where is it going? You will get no answer, because the river lives inside this very moment; neither in the past nor in the future, in this very moment only! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being. – The Dhammapada
Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. – Mark Twain
Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. – Haitian Proverb
Dr. Joel Fleischman in nature. Not exactly the man you knew. He couldn't see past the Hudson River if he tried. He liked his fish smoked or preferable hand sliced from Zabars on a sliced bagel served with onions. Nature, to him, was an irritant. Birds didn't sing, they woke him up. A body of water wasn't life, it was a golf hazard.. – Robin Green
Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river. – Chinese Proverb
Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. – Mehmet Murat ildan
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. – Albert Pike
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. – Horace
Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice! – Mehmet Murat ildan
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river. – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by. – Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun
In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. – Henry David Thoreau

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