Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune. — Jim Davis
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.… — Federico Garcia Lorca
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves,… — Anton Chekhov
Don't try to steer the river. — Deepak Chopra
If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong. — Sherman Alexie
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly… — Mark Twain
What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. — William Shakespeare
I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I… — James A. Baldwin
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. — Mitch Albom
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Unknown Author
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were… — Ernest Hemingway
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks… — Norman Maclean
Expect poison from the standing water. — William Blake
Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. — Jim Harrison
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health… — Spencer W. Kimball
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive. — Aldo Leopold
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with… — Bruce Chatwin
... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this… — Carson McCullers
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn
...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… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried… — Lois Lowry
It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that… — Betty Smith
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. — Benjamin Franklin

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