“Insanity makes the rivers flow.”

“Venerable Svasti and the young buffalo boys were rivers that flowed from that source. Wherever the rivers flowed, the Buddha would be there.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

“The river of my title is a river of DNA, and it flows through time, not space. It is a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

“A river of words flowed between us.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

“The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards.”

Euripidés Medea

“The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.”
Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur.

Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian

“Time flows away like the water in the river.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.”

Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) Mauritian artist

“Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow.”

J. Sidlow Baxter (1903–1999) Australian theologian