Bones Quote by Gunter Grass

I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a…

— Colum McCann

“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

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the…

— Myrtle Reed

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

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going,…

— Hal Boyle

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“If I've learned anything at all from the river it's to let jarring events come and go, that such tiny disruptions have no more…

— Steve Himmer

The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

— Gautama Buddha

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations.…

— Roderick Haig-Brown