Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

Time is a river, and books are boats. — Dan Brown
As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen. — Arthur Rimbaud
In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the… — Susan Sontag
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown… — Langston Hughes
As he left to answer the call, she heard him exclaiming in wonderment on the rise. "Rocks, Nash. Is that a river mare out there?… — Kristin Cashore
Then he will be called Acheron for the River of Woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey shall be dark, long and enduring.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted… — Emily Dickinson
But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do. — Kenneth Oppel
There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because… — Jandy Nelson
This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know… — Paulo Coelho
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown… — Langston Hughes
I stared at the river far below. "Why did you park us on the mountain? Why not closer?" Bast shrugged, as if this hadn't occurred… — Rick Riordan
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,… — John Milton
I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my… — Ray Bradbury
The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to… — Libba Bray
Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at… — Hermann Hesse
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim... — Jack Kerouac
Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because… — Paullina Simons
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet… — Abraham Lincoln
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same… — Ernest Hemingway
Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember… — Rick Riordan
This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your… — Laurie Halse Anderson
A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river                     but then he’s still left with the river. A man… — Richard Siken
All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please keep him safe.… — Richard Siken
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. — Virginia Woolf

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