River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are… — Eckhart Tolle
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. — Mark Twain
I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress.… — Mark Udall
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally… — Kerry Washington
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that… — Thornton Wilder
Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart… — Michelle Williams
...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave… — James M. Cain
Dip him in the river who loves water. — William Blake
The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come… — Pablo Neruda
i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop.… — Louise Erdrich
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will… — A A Milne
We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool… — W. Somerset Maugham
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love… — Robert Hass
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and… — Peter Matthiessen
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high… — Ali Smith
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,'… — Joshua Ferris
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest… — A A Milne
When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices… — Jack Kerouac
Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She… — James Joyce
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out… — Alice Hoffman
He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune. — Jim Davis

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