No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow. – African Proverb
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning. – American Indian Proverb
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice… – George Eliot
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. – Blaise Pascal
An individual human existence should be like a river – Bertrand Russell
Till last by Philips farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever At the bottom of my dream. – Henry David Thoreau
Through this broad street, restless ever, Ebbs and flows a human tide, Wave on wave a living river; Wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. – John Greenleaf Whittier
