River Quotes

1549 quotes by 1098 authors

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is… — Marcus Aurelius
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are… — Teresa of Avila
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of… — Lord Acton
Love is the river of life in the world. — Henry Ward Beecher
I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever… — Halle Berry
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom… — Vinoba Bhave
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. — Buffalo Bill
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. — Daniel Boone
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of… — Daniel Boone
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a… — Jorge Luis Borges
I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don't see… — Anthony Bourdain
Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. — Robert A. Brady
Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out… — Jason Aldean
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and… — James Cameron
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left. — Paul Cezanne
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years. — Brian Clough
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. — Paulo Coelho
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. — Maya Angelou

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