River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? — Marina Tsvetaeva
The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?'… — Thomas Hardy
I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's… — C.S. Lewis
I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of… — Amy Hempel
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity,… — Michael Pollan
If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the… — Pablo Neruda
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the… — Charles Dickens
But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the… — Garth Nix
Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the… — Khaled Hosseini
This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge,… — Margaret Atwood
Like the sweet moon keeps the sky Like the wind goin' whooshing by When those ol' sunbeams break the day I will keep you while… — Kathi Appelt
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in… — Scott Westerfeld
The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't… — Nhat Hanh
before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow — Kobayashi Issa
These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light,… — John Cheever
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars… — Barbara Kingsolver
The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. — Wallace Stevens
Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river. — Paulo Coelho
Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and… — Louis Sachar
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. — Ray Bradbury
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a… — Hermann Hesse
I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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