River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. — Frederick Marryat
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to… — Anthony de Mello
It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to… — Caryl Parker Haskins
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a… — Paul Goldberger
Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority… — Ehud Olmert
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow. — Chanakya
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the… — Mark Kostabi
No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying… — David Letterman
Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If… — Theodore Roosevelt
This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the… — Theodore Roosevelt
After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver,… — Theodore Roosevelt
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time. — Matthew Arnold
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler,… — John Greenleaf Whittier
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end. — Rachel Carson
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead… — Rachel Carson
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,… — H P Lovecraft
The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of… — Jawaharlal Nehru
Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines? — John Muir
Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved. — Amy Lowell
The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river. — Vitor Belfort
Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you. — Marvin Gaye
Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your… — Unknown Author
Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the… — Georges St-Pierre

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