Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in… — Scott Westerfeld
The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't… — Nhat Hanh
before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow — Kobayashi Issa
I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear… — Francine Rivers
These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light,… — John Cheever
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars… — Barbara Kingsolver
The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. — Wallace Stevens
Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river. — Paulo Coelho
Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and… — Louis Sachar
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. — Ray Bradbury
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a… — Hermann Hesse
I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded… — Derrick Jensen
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow.… — Michael Jackson
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it… — Carrie Underwood
How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause… — Elizabeth Gilbert
He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river. — Orson Scott Card
All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit.… — Elizabeth George Speare
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. — Aldo Leopold
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. — Henry David Thoreau
Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers… — Charles Dickens
I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into… — Derek Landy

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