Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality. — Patricia Briggs
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit… — Marcus Aurelius
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as… — John Grisham
Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said,… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks, and then there… — Kristin Cashore
By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves,… — Paulo Coelho
Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! — Pascal Mercier
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that… — David Nicholls
They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and… — Willa Cather
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving… — Gladys Taber
I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out! — Anthony Horowitz
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. — Khalil Gibran
Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes — Kay Redfield Jamison
You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking… — Cassandra Clare
I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life,… — Bryan Lee O'Malley
At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the… — Wendell Berry
I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush.… — Lisa Ann Sandell
Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had cells!" "His memory… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like tissue paper, it… — Rob Thurman
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept… — Mary Oliver
Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and… — Rudolfo Anaya
I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that… — Rudolfo Anaya
The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of… — Rudolfo Anaya
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the… — Mark Twain
I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an… — August Wilson

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