Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
Willy Ley

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
John Dryden

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.
Edwin Newman

In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries.
Jerry Costello

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.
Leonardo da Vinci

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
Charles Lyell

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Henry Van Dyke

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
Arthur Golden

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
Parris Glendening

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren Kierkegaard

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Nikita Khrushchev

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
Henry Williamson

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
Richard Dean Anderson

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
William Alexander

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
George Catlin

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire