River Quotes

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A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it… — Henry Van Dyke
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation. — Eudora Welty
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is… — Kenneth Grahame
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars. — Edward Abbey
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and… — Hal Boyle
I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. — Steven Morrissey
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel,… — John Wesley Powell
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to… — Olaus Murie
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our… — Clifton Fadiman
The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues — Richard Dawkins
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. — Indira Gandhi
American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door.… — Charley Reese
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of… — Lester R. Brown
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each… — Herodotus
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things… — Anne Lamott
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've… — Harriet Doerr
Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through… — Coleman Barks
A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the camellia flowers bloomed.… — John the Apostle

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