River Quotes
1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors
-
You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.
— Cory Lidle
-
Too many commercials, too many lies Too many celebrities I don't recognize Too many brand names, too many magazines I got so much sensation, I…
— Fred Small
-
The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower…
— David Berg
-
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the…
— John the Apostle
-
Picture that the waves of golden light have now become a solid river of golden light that is constantly passing through you. Picture this golden…
— Frederick Lenz
-
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if…
— Malcolm Gladwell
-
The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that…
— Ed Rendell
-
Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge…
— Ray LaHood
-
The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
— Hermann Hesse
-
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
— Benjamin Disraeli
-
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne…
— George Eliot
-
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
-
It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day .
— Garrison Keillor
-
Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers,…
— Arthur Koestler
-
There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky…
— Garrison Keillor
-
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind…
— Joseph Conrad
-
You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and…
— William Stafford
-
Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how…
— Pablo Neruda
-
Time is a river without banks.
— Marc Chagall
-
One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the…
— Homer
-
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept…
— Mary Oliver
-
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a…
— David Suzuki
-
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.…
— Andrea Dworkin
-
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.
— Dante Alighieri
-
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study…
— Paul Cezanne
Who Wrote These River Quotes
1,049 authors contributed a total of 1,549 River Quotes, led by these top contributors: