Quote by N.K. Jemisin

“Each of these rivers is associated with a particular divine force. The Ganga is associated with Shiva, Godavari with Rama, Yamuna with Krishna, Sindhu…

— K V Singh

“The river runs every shade of blue that has ever been known to humankind: ink and turquoise and lapis, indigo, teal, cerulean, and ultramarine.”

— Alice Hoffman

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

— Clement of Alexandria

With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable…

— William Alexander Percy

“I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it…

— Aidan Chambers

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and…

— John Milton

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

Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and…

— Edward Gargan

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

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

In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national…

— Helen Hayes

“Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem like ribbons of blue water twisting through…

— Harry Middleton