Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of… — Rachel Carson
So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave… — James M. Cain
Dip him in the river who loves water. — William Blake
The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come… — Pablo Neruda
i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop.… — Louise Erdrich
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will… — A A Milne
We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool… — W. Somerset Maugham
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love… — Robert Hass
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem… — Langston Hughes
The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and… — Peter Matthiessen
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high… — Ali Smith
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,'… — Joshua Ferris
Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their… — Susan Fletcher
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest… — A A Milne
When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices… — Jack Kerouac
The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men. — Henry David Thoreau
We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together. — Yoko Ono
Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She… — James Joyce
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of… — Michael Ondaatje
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out… — Alice Hoffman
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to… — Aesop

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