Riverbank Men Quote by Candice Millard

“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire surface of…

— Nicholas Monsarrat

“The boat spelled enveloping safety, a return to the womb. But when the men came ashore, that was birth: exposure. The sky's a hideous…

— Frank Herbert

“The cruelty of men had infected the land, and sea only swept in sharp waves to the shores.”

— Gayendra Abeywardane

“If I've learned anything at all from the river it's to let jarring events come and go, that such tiny disruptions have no more…

— Steve Himmer

“Beyond the rapids themselves, the river also concealed a host of other obstacles, wicked spots whose names offered a sufficiently graphic warning of what…

— Kevin Fedarko

“They did not even have to clean off his face to know that the dead man was a stranger. The village was made up…

— Gabriel García Márquez

So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here…

— Barry S. Strauss

Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to…

— Frederick Lenz

“Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread Charybdis kept…

— Homer

“Before roaring over Fingap Falls, the River Blapp was wide and peaceful, clear as a spring, and the fish to be caught there were…

— Andrew Peterson

“Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time, but in the great rapids and the winding shallows, no boat is…

— Ann VanderMeer

“A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the…

— Michael David Lukas