River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the… — E. M. Forster
Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one… — Rick Riordan
I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if… — Paulo Coelho
We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister,… — Pat Conroy
They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and… — Kate Braverman
Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river? — Kristin Cashore
Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed this small planet.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the… — Deepak Chopra
i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. — David Levithan
Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. — Larry McMurtry
It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?"… — Rick Riordan
Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as… — Rajneesh
I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search… — Alice Hoffman
Hitoshi: I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot… — Banana Yoshimoto
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. — Dejan Stojanovic
I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for… — Paulo Coelho
I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was… — Paulo Coelho
Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of… — Mary Oliver
When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the… — J. Michael Straczynski
And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing.… — Patrick Ness
I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the… — William Faulkner
The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the… — Patrick Rothfuss
Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about… — Terry Pratchett
You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your… — Ben Okri
A river of words flowed between us. — Ernest Cline

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