River Quotes
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I love you, Daddy," she says, slowly drifting off to sleep. I wonder how many more days I have with her.
— River Savage
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
— Owen Feltham
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" (5:24).
— Anonymous
Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.
— River Phoenix
A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.
— James R. Swartz
A river cannot boast to a sea.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The essential function of feelings is to provide feedback and pass through us organically like water flows in a river.
— Deborah Sandella
They also live
Who swerve and vanish in the river. — Archibald MacLeish
Who swerve and vanish in the river. — Archibald MacLeish
What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!
— Thaddeus Norris
What? It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.
— Domenico Cieri
The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new.
— Hunter Murphy
Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true — Bruce A. Sarte
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true — Bruce A. Sarte
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
— River Phoenix
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.
— Grace Cavalieri
Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
— Maya Angelou
That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
— Jon Foreman
Love is the crocodile in the river of desire.
— Bhartrihari
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.
— Rebecca West
A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.
— Norman Maclean
A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
— River Phoenix
I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.
— Cate Tiernan
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
— C.L. Parker
The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. — Bertolt Brecht
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. — Bertolt Brecht
Down to the river itself, the water so smooth that the stars and lights blended on its dark surface like a living ribbon of eternity. The
— Sarah J. Maas
Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.
— River Phoenix
Trying to hold onto "how it was" will only create suffering and disappointment, because life is a river and everything changes.
— Jack Kornfield
I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.
— Gore Vidal
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ...
— Mark Twain
There was a trout.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I swear it by the River Styx,
— Josephine Angelini
So what that the world is beautiful this morning? Enough of this wonder of nature crap. It almost killed me.
— Sandra Gail Lambert
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
— Thomas McGuane
Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.
— William Stafford
Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.
— Bill Shorten
It's not what we take with us
It's what we leave behind
Like a river singing
It wont let us sleep at night. — Mick Bose
It's what we leave behind
Like a river singing
It wont let us sleep at night. — Mick Bose
That was the river, this is the sea.
— Mike Scott
in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick
Your sad eyes are a river the locals know not to swim
— Tyler Gonlag
The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks like a lake!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
— Fernando Pessoa
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
— Henri Bergson
Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow — Kobayashi Issa
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow — Kobayashi Issa
Love is the river of life in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.
— River Phoenix
It felt like a war between two endless things, between a bottomless chasm and a running river.
— Naomi Novik
When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do you know the moment I laid my eyes on you, I felt the wind knock out of me, like someone just gut-punched me. I
— River Savage
I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That's what I really wanna do.
— Billy Magnussen
Fill your heart with truth so that the wisdom of Christ will flow fluently from you like a living river moving into the seeking hearts of the thirsty.
— Calvin W. Allison
I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.
— Brooke Astor
If there is no room in the river,
swim to the ocean. — Matshona Dhliwayo
swim to the ocean. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.
— Paulo Coelho
By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.
— Vaclav Havel
The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.
— Brian Morton
So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.
— George Eliot
river, small green flames, red flames, white flames, pursuing,
— Joseph Conrad
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
— Alan Paton
My whole life seemed to spill out into the river, swirling away from me, everything I had ever been or ever wanted to be.
— Tim O'Brien
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
— David Lagercrantz
I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into a river.
— Derek Landy
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.
— Augusto De Luca
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan