Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A primrose by the river's brim A yellow rose was to him. And it was nothing more — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset. Give it time. That is all that may be required.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
There are moments of oneness with the Beloved, absolutely ecstasy and bliss. That is nothingness. And this nothingness loves you, responds to… — Irina Tweedie Copy Share Image
This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image