River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as… — Ray Bradbury
your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench… — Charles Bukowski
...you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and you are filled… — Tim O'Brien
So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a… — Hiromu Arakawa
We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin… — David Almond
Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in… — David Wroblewski
She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know… — Neil Gaiman
Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. — John O'Donohue
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against… — Harlan Ellison
Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders — Peter Matthiessen
Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the… — N. Scott Momaday
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession.… — Paulo Coelho
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. — Henry James
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river… — Arthur Koestler
Life in us is like the water in a river. — Henry David Thoreau
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. — David R. Brower
A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to… — Fumiko Enchi
A good river is nature's life work in song. — Mark Helprin
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s… — Aidan Chambers
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged — Unknown Author
A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there… — David Lubar
When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it!… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All… — Abraham Lincoln
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go,… — Joanne Harris

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