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As he stared down at River's lips, swollen from his kisses, there was no question she would be his. The fire within her matched his. — Donna Grant

I love you, Daddy," she says, slowly drifting off to sleep. I wonder how many more days I have with her. — River Savage

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up. — River Phoenix

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.

The mountains were gone, replaced by a lush green vale. A river flowed out of the mountains, twisting in great curves through the vale until it — John Gwynne

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 snail will never take a plunge in a river to find refreshment; I am refreshed wherever I am located for my source is Elshaddai... — Bayode Ojo

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

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface ... — Ron Rash

They also live
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

The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating. — Anais Nin

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

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

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. — Anchee Min

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

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez

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

The Yellow River causes a hundred calamities but enriches all it touches — Jiang Rong

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

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. — Jean Cocteau

A desert's a stupid place to put a river. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue. — Jim Fowler

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

Everybody's got a river inside," he said. "Always something under the surface. — John Ritter

I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys? — John Shors

Muddy Waters he play in the river Joan Rivers she play in the mud Swami guru play in a big salad bowl Counting lettuce and chewing his cud — Tom Robbins

The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. — Bertolt Brecht

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder. — C.S. Lewis

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

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going. — Mary Oliver

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

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. — Barten Holyday

There was a trout. — Ernest Hemingway,

I swear it by the River Styx, — Josephine Angelini

Star salt (the stars' reflection in a river) Sun cradle (the sea) Lemon kiss (everyone knew exactly what this meant!) Family anchor (the dinner table) — Nina George

You do know that the West Bank means the West Bank of the Jordan River, don't you? — James Martin

So what that the world is beautiful this morning? Enough of this wonder of nature crap. It almost killed me. — Sandra Gail Lambert

On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made. — Clint Eastwood

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

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

Sometimes I float along the river
For its surface I am bound
And there are times stones done fill my pockets
And it's into this river I drown — T.J. Klune

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

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

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. — Socrates

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

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years. — Brian Clough

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

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

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful. — Cory Lidle

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Rumi

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing. — Brian Morton

You ruin me, woman," he breathes, before taking my mouth in his. — River Savage

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

He heard the voice that had called to him in dreams, had saved him from the sands and from following his brother into the river. — V.S. Carnes

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

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. — Meister Eckhart

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

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board). — Jerome K. Jerome

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn