River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow.… — Michael Jackson
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it… — Carrie Underwood
He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river. — Orson Scott Card
All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit.… — Elizabeth George Speare
Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers… — Charles Dickens
I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into… — Derek Landy
One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by… — Julia Gregson
He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting… — Richard Russo
Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going. — Mary Oliver
Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have… — Truman Capote
You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as… — Paullina Simons
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground… — Haruki Murakami
In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to… — Libba Bray
There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange. Something about… — Markus Zusak
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! — Allen Ginsberg
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you… — Alice Walker
In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the… — Alan Watts
Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wouldn't have been sent back to help you," Tristan continued. "I wouldn't have been made an angel if it weren't important that you live,… — Elizabeth Chandler
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are… — Richard Rohr
Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the candlelight on his… — Karen Chance
I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up… — Sapphire
And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid… — Edgar Allan Poe
Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River. Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be dead in the… — Nora Roberts

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