River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.… — Federico Garcia Lorca
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves,… — Anton Chekhov
Don't try to steer the river. — Deepak Chopra
If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong. — Sherman Alexie
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly… — Mark Twain
What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. — William Shakespeare
I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I… — James A. Baldwin
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. — Mitch Albom
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Unknown Author
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were… — Ernest Hemingway
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks… — Norman Maclean
We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health… — Spencer W. Kimball
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive. — Aldo Leopold
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with… — Bruce Chatwin
... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this… — Carson McCullers
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn
...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried… — Lois Lowry
It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that… — Betty Smith
The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. — Richard Bach
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save… — Sherman Alexie
The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so… — Helen Humphreys
Time flows away like the water in the river. — Confucius
A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water. — James Schuyler
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart — Tom Waits
Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up… — R A Salvatore

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