“The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.”

“The river that flows in you also flows in me.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

“There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

“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

“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

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

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