River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the… — Kristin Harmel
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a fountain… — Jaume Plensa
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea. — Michel de Montaigne
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and… — Thomas Carlyle
An individual human existence should be like a river — Bertrand Russell
The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the… — Jack Kerouac
All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have… — Wendell Berry
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. — Abraham Lincoln
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river. — Henry Van Dyke
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. — Blaise Pascal
The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother… — Sylvia Plath
The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the… — Michael Crichton
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise… — Edward Dahlberg
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not… — Sean O'Casey
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I… — William Least Heat-Moon
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents… — William Least Heat-Moon
Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it… — Guy Finley
The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened… — Jonathan Raban
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace,… — Simon Newcomb
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something… — Mary Oliver
Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid. — Jim Sturgess
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari. — Alexander McCall Smith
I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive… — Ken Salazar

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