River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to… — Sam Trammell
One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting… — Chris Herren
Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or… — Alastair Humphreys
Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. — Paulo Coelho
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely… — Jose Saramago
That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation… — Rosita Forbes
Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and… — Joshua
On a horse there is a perfect position of balance where he doesn’t feel like he’s pushing you along with him or dragging you along… — Buck Brannaman
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more… — Swami Vivekananda
I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things… — Heraclitus
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair… — Ron Kind
Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one… — Mao Zedong
It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time!… — Aldo Leopold
Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the… — Stonewall Jackson
Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've… — Jack Kerouac
Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party. — Terry Southern
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,… — Victor Hugo
Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine. — Bruce Cockburn
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between… — Ernest Thompson Seton
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such… — George Elliott Clarke
Do I look like the Green River Killer? — Gary Ridgway
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light… — Charles Dickens
James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos. — Kaley Cuoco
The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence. — Deepak Chopra

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