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

“The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“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

“Insanity makes the rivers flow.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes book Midnight Predator

“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

“Women Are Not Roses

Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.

Though rivers flow
women are not
rivers.

Women are not
roses
they are not oceans
or stars.

i would like to tell
her this but
i think she
already knows.”

Ana Castillo (1953) novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer

“Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher