River Quotes

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the riv...

There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm...

Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I...

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far...

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon wo...

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or s...

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...

A good river is nature's life work in song.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on eith...

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometim...

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is ...

You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...

Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in th...

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We ...

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children...

The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to cons...

The black land slid by and he was going into the country among the hills. For the first time in a do...

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the r...

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberl...

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through h...

Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unf...

Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail t...

My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolut...

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain ...

The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his l...

The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the r...

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to expl...

And out floated Eeyore. "Eeyore!" cried everybody. Looking very calm, very dignified, with his legs ...

Oh fair enough are sky and plain,But I know fairer far:Those are as beautiful againThat in the water...

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.

The savage rushing of the river seemed to be inside her head, inside her body. Even when the oarswom...

You are the ocean, let the rivers come to you. You are the flower, let the bees come to you.

Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the ...

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side...

An extraordinary dream by lord charles wellesley. (Charlotte Bronte)'In this slumber i thought i was...

Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a brid...

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I've also done some am...

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da...

I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The in...

So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea th...

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was ...

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and k...

From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out ...

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its...

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river f...

I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one's co...

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy ...

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the riv...

The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer t...

Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feelin...

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ...