Affair Quote by Carl Clinton Van Doren

“Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with…

— Samuel Butler

'River' is all about tension and release. It's about intimacy and solace. It's about staring someone in the face and not backing down.

— Bishop Briggs

Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere,…

— Tom Robbins

“When I come to the country I cease to view man as separate from the rest. As the river runs through many a clime,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“My love is such that rivers cannot quench”

— Anne Bradstreet

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

— George Henry Lewes

“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him…

— Lord Dunsany

“But the river, though it flowed so slowly, had still a sense of movement and it gave one a melancholy feeling of the transitoriness…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“There's a stream that trickles through all of us. It's always there. It's evil and we know this, so we force it to mix…

— T. Jefferson Parker

“the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth…

— Kenneth Grahame

As rivers, when they overflow, drown those grounds, and ruin those husbandmen, which, whilst they flowed calmly betwixt their banks, they fertilized and enriched;…

— Robert Boyle

Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.

— Richard Bangs