River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a… — Michael Koryta
Los Angeles was a place after my own heart. The people were hospitable. The country had the same attraction for me that it had for… — William Mulholland
I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up… — Ishmael Beah
The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like… — Hiroko Sakai
Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river… — Debbie Ford
Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great… — Marcus Aurelius
I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers,… — Charles Caleb Colton
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will… — Ajahn Chah
Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his… — Trevor Hall
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any… — Louisa May Alcott
Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting… — Hartley Coleridge
I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing… — Edward Norton
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or… — Frederick Carl Frieseke
In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to… — Haile Gebrselassie
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. — Khalil Gibran
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river… — Cyril Connolly
When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss. — Leonardo DiCaprio
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much… — Black Elk
Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of… — Tom Felton
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. — Victor Hugo
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by… — Victor Hugo
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. — Cordell Hull
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' — Lyndon B. Johnson
We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We… — Chief Joseph

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