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River Quotes by Wendell Berry
- The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
- Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and…
- All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have…
- How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we…
- The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful…
- At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the…
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