70 Downstream Quotes
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The closer to the source, the clearer the water. — Swedish Proverbs
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans. — Aldo Leopold
Always drink upstream from the herd. — Will Rogers
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side. — John Gierach
When the river sounds, water is running. — Mexican Proverbs
However far a stream flows, it doesn’t forget its origin. — African Proverbs
Be aware that information flows down a 'food chain', with those who get it first 'eating' and those who get it late being eaten. — Edward O. Thorp
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. — Woodrow Wilson
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Mississippi basin has a network of huge, navigable rivers flowing into the Mississippi River all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico. — Tim Marshall
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come. — Leonardo da Vinci
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part. — Philip Yancey
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up. — Richard Rohr
The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions. — David Ogilvy
Short Downstream Quotes
- Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. — Wendell Berry
- Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. — John Lennon
- Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. — W. C. Fields
- Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream. — Esther Hicks
- That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream. — Jon Foreman
- In planetary terms, we're all downstream. — William McDonough
- ...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span. — James Patterson
- Downstream is always someone else's up. — Barbara Kingsolver
- Politics is downstream from culture. — Andrew Breitbart
- Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. — Sayings
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There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in. — Desmond Tutu
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream. — Sonia Sanchez
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current. — Laura Schlessinger
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb — Alvin Toffler
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. — John Oates
Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream. — David Nicholls
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. — Sam Walton
You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. — Loretta Lynn
After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency. — Sam Walton
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Comedy is downstream of culture, so the job of comedy, in my opinion, is to always be responding to the things that are wrong with society in that moment. Most people say that the job of the comedian is to make people laugh, yes it is but is that all? I don’t think so. I think comedians should be saying: this is what the mainstream narrative is, and here are the holes in it. Comedians should be trying to take society forward, and they should be always pushing back against the mainstream because the mainstream is the authority. Whereas what’s happening now is that you have a culture where comedians are essentially buying into mainstream culture. They are the woke ones; they are the super-woke. Comedians are super-woke. I am massively hated by many people in the comedy world because I’m not. So I’ll have plenty to talk about – no problem there! — Konstantin Kisin
The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream. — Denis Johnson
Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan. — Arlo Guthrie
Everybody is talking about the behavior. Behaviors float downstream to us. We need to paddle upstream. The problems that are causing the behaviors, that's what's waiting for us. It's a crucial paradigm shift. — Ross W. Greene
Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly? — Philip Caldwell
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. — John Breaux
Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you. — Esther Hicks
We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials. — Hassanal Bolkiah
Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying. — Annie Dillard
Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks. — Mariana Mazzucato
All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream. — John Salazar
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. — Ray Bradbury
If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream. — Francis Chan
So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office. — Reed Hastings
The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done. — Tim Ferriss
Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris. — Charles R. Swindoll
An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it might affect the environment. We have such a miserably poor understanding of how the organism develops from its DNA that I would be surprised if we don't get one rude shock after another. — Richard Lewontin
Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision. — Oren Lyons
Every baby born unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come due in twenty years with interest, an anger that must find a target, a pain that will beget pain. A decade downstream a child screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched, a firing squad is summoned, a button is pushed and the world burns. — Marge Piercy
Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything. — Arlo Guthrie
We all live downstream — David Suzuki
When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift. — Maya Angelou
There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life. And then, of course, the end of the world happened. — Justin Cronin
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. — Rick Warren
The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. — Eliot Spitzer
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