Causes Quote by Charles Dickens

“As for the river, it just kept moving,as river do--as rivers do. Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved with the…

— John Irving

“Time had twisted the stream’s contour, reshaped the profile of the trees and obscured the old paths. The very lie of the land appeared…

— Andrew Caldecott

“the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth…

— Kenneth Grahame

“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big…

— Joseph Conrad

The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a…

— Kekla Magoon

“The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections…

— Virginia Woolf

“when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories…

— Kenneth Grahame

“But the river, though it flowed so slowly, had still a sense of movement and it gave one a melancholy feeling of the transitoriness…

— W. Somerset Maugham

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“In the winter of wet years the streams ran full-freshet, and they swelled the river until sometimes it raged and boiled, bank full, and…

— John Steinbeck

“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big…

— Joseph Conrad

“I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched... Eventually the watcher joined…

— Norman Maclean