River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a… — Chuck Klein
I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot… — Alan G. Poindexter
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or… — J. G. Ballard
I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was… — Eric Christian Olsen
The I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, is tilting. — Anthony Foxx
Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through… — Tina Brown
The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967,… — Martin Van Creveld
Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention. — Pierce Brosnan
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. — John Jeremiah Sullivan
Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares! — Buzz Aldrin
A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his… — Paula Broadwell
I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a… — Joseph Monninger
In the spring of 1968, The Beatles and I were invited by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to travel to Riskikesh, India. Riskikesh has been an important… — Mike Love
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles… — Peter Benchley
I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row… — Susan Glaspell
I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother… — Dale T. Mortensen
If you have a river, then you should share it with everyone. — Chen Guangbiao
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. — Clifton Fadiman
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. — Horace
The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days,… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. — John Hope
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United… — John Moody
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were… — John Moody
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began… — William Henry Ashley
Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between… — Rebecca Harding Davis

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