Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning… — Ron Rash
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are… — Rollo May
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but… — Ben Okri
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road… — Ben Okri
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging… — Edward Abbey
Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded… — Robert Adams
Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned,… — Terry Pratchett
Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land… — J.R.R. Tolkien
You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in… — Margaret Atwood
Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the… — Carl Jung
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of… — Marquis de Sade
What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But… — James Dickey
Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...The answer is to go out and find the… — Rush Limbaugh
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank,… — George Eliot
HumanÂ feelingÂ is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait forÂ beautyÂ â€” it flows with resistlessÂ forceÂ and bringsÂ… — George Eliot
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers,… — Petrarch
George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always… — George Foreman
We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on… — Malala Yousafzai
If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become… — Malala Yousafzai
As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do… — Paul Watson

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