Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on… — Caleb Carr
The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. — Richard Bach
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in… — Herman Melville
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save… — Sherman Alexie
The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so… — Helen Humphreys
A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made… — Robin Hobb
Time flows away like the water in the river. — Confucius
A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water. — James Schuyler
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart — Tom Waits
Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up… — R A Salvatore
What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more. — Ursula Hegi
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence… — Eric Weiner
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons… — Ray Bradbury
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot.… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A… — Kate DiCamillo
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. — Edward Abbey
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one… — Ayn Rand
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths… — Jennifer Weiner
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and… — Isaac Asimov
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the… — Czeslaw Milosz
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river;… — Marina Tsvetaeva
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living… — Henry Miller
Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is… — Jack Gilbert

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