River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking… — Tim Winton
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253) — Dorothy Allison
Time is a river, and books are boats. — Dan Brown
In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the… — Susan Sontag
As he left to answer the call, she heard him exclaiming in wonderment on the rise. "Rocks, Nash. Is that a river mare out there?… — Kristin Cashore
Then he will be called Acheron for the River of Woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey shall be dark, long and enduring.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted… — Emily Dickinson
But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do. — Kenneth Oppel
There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because… — Jandy Nelson
This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know… — Paulo Coelho
I stared at the river far below. "Why did you park us on the mountain? Why not closer?" Bast shrugged, as if this hadn't occurred… — Rick Riordan
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,… — John Milton
I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my… — Ray Bradbury
The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to… — Libba Bray
Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at… — Hermann Hesse
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim... — Jack Kerouac
Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because… — Paullina Simons
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet… — Abraham Lincoln
Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember… — Rick Riordan
This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your… — Laurie Halse Anderson
A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river                     but then he’s still left with the river. A man… — Richard Siken
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. — Virginia Woolf
I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing… — Warren Ellis
I caught Bast’s arm when she was a few steps from the bank. “Stay away from the water.” She frowned. “Carter, I’m a cat. I’m… — Rick Riordan

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