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Rivers Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.
- No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving; as well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing to give the sea…
- White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting…
- So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
- Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to…
- ...for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning…
- When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it!…
More Rivers 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
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- 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
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt
- 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