Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?"… — Libba Bray
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of… — William Faulkner
Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me… — Francesca Lia Block
We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know… — Gary Shteyngart
Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the… — Roberto Bolano
How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have… — Mikhail Bulgakov
TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames… — Rudyard Kipling
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it. — Margaret Mitchell
As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I… — Joan Didion
Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. — Will Eisner
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange… — Derrick Jensen
Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold." Question: What's the… — Jenny Downham
I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still… — Colum McCann
I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the… — Carl Sandburg
When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the… — David Sedaris
A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river. — John Steinbeck
If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea. — Carol Plum-Ucci
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks every woman when… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When ordinary human beings perform extraordinary acts of generosity, endurance or compassion, we are all made richer by their example. Like the rivers that flow… — Greg Mortenson
With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea? — Pablo Neruda
Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I leaned back against him and rested my cheek on his shoulder. I could feel the river water dripping off of him. "Thank you" I… — Elizabeth Chandler
The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't… — Neal Shusterman
While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts,… — Charles Dickens
Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river. — Jodi Picoult

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