Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know… — Neil Gaiman
Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. — John O'Donohue
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy! — Jack Kerouac
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of… — Leonard Cohen
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against… — Harlan Ellison
Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders — Peter Matthiessen
Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the… — N. Scott Momaday
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession.… — Paulo Coelho
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. — Henry James
I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of the… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river… — Arthur Koestler
Life in us is like the water in a river. — Henry David Thoreau
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. — David R. Brower
A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to… — Fumiko Enchi
A good river is nature's life work in song. — Mark Helprin
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s… — Aidan Chambers
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged — Unknown Author
A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there… — David Lubar
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana,… — Norman Maclean
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!… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All… — Abraham Lincoln
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go,… — Joanne Harris
You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only… — Mark Helprin
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles,… — Jean Rhys

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