Rivers Quotes
1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors
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It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop…
— Nhat Hanh
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We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses,…
— George R. R. Martin
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Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?" Frank cleared his…
— Rick Riordan
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Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it
— Gary Paulsen
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WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering…
— Jack Gilbert
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One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now…
— John Muir
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Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew.…
— Eugene Field
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Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting flash of multicolored…
— Cassandra Clare
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When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one…
— Ray Bradbury
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Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.
— Stephen Crane
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A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the…
— Virginia Woolf
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Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and…
— Markus Zusak
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Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. He was so full of emotion,…
— Christopher Paolini
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And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.
— Christopher Paolini
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
— Lisa See
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She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful…
— Lynn Kurland
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Seasons may change winter to spring, but I love you until the end of time Come what may, come what may, I will love you…
— Ewan McGregor
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