Ancient Quote by Langston Hughes

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has…

— Langston Hughes

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural…

— Leo Tolstoy

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

— Norman Maclean

The great river follows its own course before joining the vast sea. Likewise, the soul follows equally varied routes and passes through different stages,…

— Andre Luiz Moreira

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

— George William Curtis

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people… We are a nation rich in rivers.

— Charles Kuralt

Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere,…

— Tom Robbins

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

— Laura Gilpin

What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.

— Pocahontas

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.

— Rumi

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately…

— William Least Heat-Moon