Rivers Quotes

A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.

Patrick McCully

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.

Aberjhani

Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.

Israelmore Ayivor

Just as every crop performs on its specific type of soil, and not all fishes can grow in every kind of water, so is leadership. You can’t lead where you can’t thrive; you can lead where you can survive!

Israelmore Ayivor

You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The crocodiles that frighten from crossing the rivers of our destinies are easily drowned with personal confidence but not team courage. It means you owe it to yourself to defeat your own crocodiles and cross over to the other side!

Israelmore Ayivor

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.

A dam is monumentally static; it tries to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low flow.

Patrick McCully

A river flow freely from its source.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t let the horrible nature of the waters prevent you from crossing the rivers of life. The more horrible the challenges we face, the sweeter the joy of conquering them.

Israelmore Ayivor

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

Dejan Stojanovic

Camomille: Fallible men write books. God writes in sunlight and rivers and planets. Isn't the Universe a good book? I trust it above the printed kind.