River Quote by Scott Prussing

“ALL HE COULD SEE, IN EVERY DIRECTION, WAS WATER. It was June 23, 1943. Somewhere on the endless expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Army…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I…

— Brad Alan Lewis

“Adept sailors emerge after sailing tough storms.”

— Donald Ngonyo

“I travelled among unknown men in lands beyond the sea . . .”

— Wordsworth

“There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the…

— Tom Neale

“Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the…

— Yukio Mishima

“And behind all this human movement the ocean bobbed and folded and slid, for nothing could keep still, not people, not water, not time.”

— Ian McEwan

“The sea was cruel and selfish as human beings, and in its monstrous simplicity had no notion of complexities like pity, wounding, or remorse...…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who had slipped…

— Marcel Proust

“There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They’re too weak to make it from shore to shore. I…

— Antonia Michaelis

In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We had a lazy voyage, stopping at Fiji and other islands, and finally arrived at Honolulu. It was far more sophisticated than we had…

— Agatha Christie