Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we'll reunite for…

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

— Norman Maclean

Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater…

— Michel de Montaigne

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has…

— Langston Hughes

That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and…

— William Faulkner

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

— Thomas Bernhard

We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing…

— Gretel Ehrlich

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“I didn't know all that was inside of him, either. I thought I did, but people run deep and complicated like rivers, hold their…

— Ally Condie

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“Like snow melt and passing leaves, we show our faces then are gone, and like rivers we pour.”

— Don Hynes

Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they…

— Henry Ward Beecher

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The…

— Leo Tolstoy

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

— Gloria Steinem

“Human beings are made of water–- we were not designed to hold ourselves together rather run freely like oceans like rivers”

— Beau Taplin

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

— Langston Hughes