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River Quotes by Pat Conroy
- The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return…
- ...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own…
- Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung…
- 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,…
More River Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton
- Love is the river of life in the world. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's… — Halle Berry
- The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus… — Vinoba Bhave
- After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. — Buffalo Bill
- In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. — Daniel Boone
- In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians… — Daniel Boone
- Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river;… — Jorge Luis Borges