Top 100 Like A River Quotes
#1. The love between people and especially between mothers and children doesn't end. It flows like a river through the world. Shut your eyes and you can feel it rising.
Eli Gottlieb
#2. Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge.
Massimo Vitali
#3. Land lasts longer than blood or love. It is not like a river.
Annick Smith
#4. But it's there in his face, a fleeting reluctance that matches her own. They stand there together for a long time, for too long, for what seems like forever, each unwilling to part ways, letting the people behind them stream past like a river around rocks. Page: 91
Jennifer E. Smith
#6. Time passes, people move. Like a river's flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. The clear water's surface reflects growth. Now listen to the Serenade of water to reflect upon yourself.
Sheik
#7. All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
Marcus Aurelius
#8. Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.
Rumi
#9. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" (5:24).
Anonymous
#10. A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
Garth Brooks
#11. The four of us sit together in the sea of blue, the train twisting and turning like a river running, and I know it's hard to fight against a current as strong as the Society.
Ally Condie
#12. The heart of a city
Is the soul of a man
It winds like a river
Through the heart of the land
They can tear down a building
They can tear down a park
They can strike at a symbol
But they can't strike the heart
Janis Ian
#13. The leaves had edges of silver that trembled and rippled like a river of green and fire flowing high above us.
Ayn Rand
#14. You had to wonder who all these people in their cars were leaving behind and who they were driving toward, and if they knew that in the distance, the echo of their tires on the asphalt sounded like a river, and that to someone like me, it could seem like the miracle I'd been looking for.
Alice Hoffman
#15. May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#16. Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
Marcus Aurelius
#17. You got shot? Where? How? By who?" He zipped up in the air, darting left to right, right to left. "Did you cry? I would've cried. A lot. Like a river of motherfucking tears.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#18. For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
Chen Shui-bian
#20. Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
Guru Nanak
#21. The dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows and the dreamer just a vessel that must follow where it goes. We must lean from what's behind us never knowing what's in store keeps each day a contant battle just to stay between the shore
Garth Brooks
#22. Live is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.
Peggy Sealfon
#23. Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.
Charles Kellogg
#24. She doesn't know any other way to express her love, it always flowed like a river inside her. Don't judge her for the way she love .Like an artist she carves each relation in her life wholeheartedly. Now its an art work , you might not like her art but don't doubt her love which created that.
Archna Mohan
#25. A life without love is like a river without water. Dryness cracks the heart.
Debasish Mridha
#26. If it had been touch, it might have been pressure-not an uncomfortable pressure, but one that swept away all the pain of her headache. Like a river rushing through her mind, clearing out everything stagnant and clotted and decayed.
L.J.Smith
#27. Time is like a river. As soon as a thing is seen, it is carried away and another takes its place, and then that other is carried away also.
Jack McDevitt
#28. We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
David Brower
#29. Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it
Gary Paulsen
#30. The way to the place you wish to go can always be found; just behave like a river, that is to say, firstly, move and secondly, move with no hesitation!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. A mind without kindness is like a river without water.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Time is like a river
you cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed
will never pass again ...
Tanu B Singh
#33. Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it'll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.
Charles Martin
#34. Do you know where you are going? Do you know what you are going to do? Do you know what you are going to say? Sometimes you better know nothing and flow freely just like a river, not knowing where to go, not knowing what to do, not knowing what to say!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop.
James T. Farrell
#36. Poetry is such an amazing feeling that flows like a river.
Euginia Herlihy
#37. Oriel didn't move. But inside of his head, all was movement, like a river running over rapids, searching for the way through, trying routes around rocks and over shallows, a turbulence of thought more rapid than he could follow. Griff, he knew, would do and say nothing until he heard Oriel's choice.
Cynthia Voigt
#38. Time was like a river, and I was a fish in that river, moving so quickly that the world outside my household was blur.
Alice Hoffman
#39. Life is flowing like a river while you are standing on the bank and busy with everyday life.
Debasish Mridha
#40. The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks like a lake!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. Life was like a river, and the river flowed in one direction and one direction only. Sometimes it moved nice and easy through familiar territory; other times it became wild and turbulent and carried you to untamed lands. You either made the most of the ride or you didn't.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#42. life is like a river; it just keeps flowin
Amy Curtis
#43. Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us ... Nothing just stops and stays ... But it flows on ... Like a river ...
Danielle Steel
#44. Because I love you and I can't get enough of you. That emotion ran deeper and deeper, like a river than had reached open plains, soft earth, and could burrow deeper now, build more force. There was no sense anymore that it would end, had to end, was better if it ended.
Aleksandr Voinov
#45. Writer's block is as a depression in the earth. Like a river that flows into this depression for a time of rest and tranquility, eventually filling to continue its journey from the lower end of its shore line, so too shall your creative juices flow again.
Everett R. Lake
#46. You know a dream is like a river
Ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you
And never knowing what's in store
Makes each day a constant battle
Just to stay between the shores.
Garth Brooks
#47. We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
Adlai Stevenson
#48. I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants.
Paulo Coelho
#49. For one moment, I felt like a river running down to his ocean.
Rosamund Hodge
#50. Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.
Gregory Corso
#51. Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon
#52. Change is like a river: nothing is the same, even for an instant. Everything is continually moving through the six stages of change: about to come into being, beginning, expanding, approaching maximum potential, peaking, and finally, passing its peak and flowing into its new condition.
Wu Wei
#53. There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .
Ovid
#54. My grief reminds me what is dear to my heart by what is no longer to be. Loss is a part of the movement of change, and the grief that accompanies loss is necessary in order to let the movement of change flow through. Tears are like a river releasing to open waters.
Sharon Weil
#55. We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.
Stephen Colbert
#57. I had not known, before us, that every vein in my body was capable of carrying light, like a river seen from a train makes a channel of sky etch itself deep into a landscape. I had not really known I could be so much more than myself. I had not known another body could do this to mine.
Ali Smith
#58. All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river
Heraclitus
#59. A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.
Ray Bradbury
#60. The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;
Nor a church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.
But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;
And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#61. Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.
Bruce Springsteen
#62. Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.
Ram Dass
#63. The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Alexander Pope
#64. We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.
Ming-Dao Deng
#65. Water isn't shaped like a river or ocean; it mists invisibly against metal and glass
Maya Angelou
#66. Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.
Jeremy Collier
#67. Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.
Ali Akbar Khan
#68. Some people are destined to dream (some, indeed, are paid rather well to do so); some are born to work, practical and concrete and tireless; and there are others who are like a river, who flow effortlessly down from source to mouth, hardly straying from its bed.
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#69. May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding.
John O'Donohue
#70. Was memory like a river that slowed over time to a trickle? Or was it like a house with many rooms that became a house with fewer rooms and then finally just a single room you could never leave? Was that the worst fate in the world? It depended, Wyatt supposed, on what room you ended up in.
Lou Berney
#71. Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.
Ovid
#72. Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.
Richard Selzer
#73. I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.
Paulo Coelho
#75. That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain.
Haruki Murakami
#76. It's not what we take with us
It's what we leave behind
Like a river singing
It wont let us sleep at night.
Mick Bose
#77. Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.
Rumi
#78. Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.
Don McLean
#79. Friendship is like a river; it flows around rocks, adapts itself to valleys and mountains, occasionally turns into a pool until the hollow in the ground is full and it can continue on its way. Just
Paulo Coelho
#80. I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
Gary Allan
#81. Listening to all words
the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture
can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.
Kathleen Norris
#82. A heart without kindness is like a river without water.
A mind without clarity is like a dark cloudy sky.
A life without purpose is like journey without destination.
Debasish Mridha
#83. I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.
Nickolas Ashford
#84. Sir 39:27 His blessing hath overflowed like a river.
Various
#85. But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.
Kenneth Oppel
#86. In the morning
it shuffles, unhurried,
across the wet fields
in its black slippers,
in its coal-colored coat
with the white stripe like a river
running down its spine
Mary Oliver
#87. A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself
Maya Angelou
#88. What is not yours will never last forever but what comes from the inside will flow like a river and it will bear fruits.
Euginia Herlihy
#89. Life is like a river - it keeps flowing, flowing and flowing till it merges into the Sea. nothing can stop the flow of Life , but you can Enjoy the Journey ...
R.v.m.
#90. Time is like a river," Coydog had told the boy. "It come up behind ya hard and just keep right on goin'. You couldn't stop it no more than you could fly away.
Walter Mosley
#91. I would love to live like a river flows,
carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
John O'Donohue
#92. A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
Melody Carlson
#93. But be sure that human feelings can never be completely stilled. If they are forbidden from their normal course, like a river they will cut another channel through the life and flow out to curse and ruin and destroy
A.W. Tozer
#94. Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
Alain-Rene Lesage
#95. The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#96. Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice.
John Stephens
#98. We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
George Saunders
#99. Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
Lisa See
