Adam Quote by James Joyce

“riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth…

— James Joyce

“From Eden’s bowers the full-fed rivers flow, To guide the outcasts to the land of woe: Our Earth one little toiling streamlet yields. To…

— George MacDonald

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax…

— Margaret Craven

“Where the rivers come, there shall they return.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime.

— Harvey Rice

“Soon the river would narrow and carve through water rushes and overhanging trees still dripping with weed and flotsam from the previous high tide;…

— Sarah Winman

“Now a door slams. The kids have rushed out for the last play, the mothers are planning and slamming in kitchens, you can hear…

— Jack Kerouac

“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

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

— Rachel Carson

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

— Henry David Thoreau