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Is this the river of hate, or the river of smartass? -- Kendare Blake
River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you. -- April Genevieve Tucholke
I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day. -- Theodore Roethke
Riverman, Riverman, blood to ice. -- Aaron Starmer
From Eden's bowers the full-fed rivers flow,
To guide the outcasts to the land of woe:
Our Earth one little toiling streamlet yields.
To guide the wanderers to the happy fields. -- George Macdonald
Run like the river. -- Suzanne Collins
In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone. -- Roberta Flack
Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free. -- Lauren Destefano
All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother. -- Chief Seattle
One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. -- Matt Goldman
Don't push the river. Just go with it. -- Alysia Reiner
A river reaches places its source never knows. -- Oswald Chambers
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. -- Izaak Walton
I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be. -- Miriam Makeba
the river from which one draws water is one way of identifying an individual -- Prudence J. Jones
Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray? -- Katy Lederer
Let tomorrow cross its own rivers. -- William Morris
There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river. -- David R. Brower
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river. -- Simone Schwarz-Bart
Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river. -- Paulo Coelho
When its steamboat time
you steamboat -- Mark Twain
Stream is stream. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. -- Barten Holyday
Does the river make the choice to erode the rock? -- Deb Caletti
I'm guessing this isn't the Mississippi," I said.
"The River of Night," Bloodstained Blade hummed. "It is every river and no river - the shadow of the Mississippi, the Nile, the Thames. It flows throughout the Duat, with many branches and tributaries."
"Clears that right up," I muttered. -- Rick Riordan
many small streams will join to make a mighty river. -- Christopher Sharpe
What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters? -- Terry Pratchett
I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since. -- Sam Cooke
A river passing through a landscape catches the world and gives it back redoubled: a shifting, glinting world more mysterious than the one we customarily inhabit. Rivers run through our civilisations like strings through beads, -- Olivia Laing
I am the river of love, I am the flow of life. -- Debasish Mridha
Our business was done at the river's brink; -- Robert Browning
There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it. -- Rumi
A river is easier to channel than to stop. -- Brandon Sanderson
I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me. -- D.l. Moody
we cleared out of the river, and he had the -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us -- Arthur Golden
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph. -- Natalie Dormer
Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river. -- Markus Zusak
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans. -- Aldo Leopold
With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea? -- Pablo Neruda
Every King, like the river, is evident by his currents -- Dora Okeyo
The river is one of my favorite metaphors, the symbol of the great flow of Life Itself. The river begins at Source, and returns to Source, unerringly. This happens every single time, without exception. We are no different. -- Jeffrey R. Anderson
One can't step into the river twice -- Ann Howard Creel
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water ... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river. -- Roderick Haig-Brown
History is also a river. -- Stephen King
We all live downstream -- David Suzuki
trails and across rushing, -- Kent Nerburn
You never step into the same river twice, -- Nicci French
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. -- Frederick Marryat
Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current. -- Coleman Barks
The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream. -- Kekla Magoon
What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing. -- Pocahontas
Our bodies are molded rivers. -- Novalis
I've been sitting here watching the river. It never stops, you know. -- Kate Morton
Wise man and river; they both create new paths! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. -- Richard Bach
River is like Mayweather; I could throw every punch - every argument I have - at him, and he'd never back down. -- Lisa De Jong
I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with upheaval and loss. -- Lori Benton
Up the well known creek -- Margery Allingham
What a number of things a river does, by simply following Gravity in the innocence of its heart! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future. -- Hermann Hesse
Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces. -- Wendell Berry
Dreams haunted The Riverworld. -- Philip Jose Farmer
Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road. -- Bob Marshall
The river is within us, the sea is all about us; -- T. S. Eliot
After an exhilarating whitewater ride through America's love-hate relationship with its rivers, Daniel McCool leaves us inspired and hopeful for a happy ending. -- Michael Brune
The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That was the river, this is the sea. -- Mike Scott
Let us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees. -- Thomas Jackson
Can't tell if I've got rivers or veins running under my skin, flowing out over the plains. -- Mariee Sioux
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. -- John Dryden
From RIVER
My body is filled with sand. The heavy grains flow from my eyes and seek somewhere to fall.
Speak to me friends. Tell me I am free to go now, for I need to sit alone in the sun on the river bank, juggling pebbles. -- Jay Woodman
What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
You cannot step into the same river twice -- Heraclitus Of Ephesus
What's his offense?
Groping for trout in a peculiar river. -- William Shakespeare
Say it again slowly, that thing about the river. -- Ian Mcewan
I am the running brook that soothes your soul. -- Julia Cameron
Change we must; if a river can, so can we. -- Vinita Kinra
The Thames is liquid history. -- John Burns
I'm standing in a river. It's blue. Dark blue. Reflecting the color of the evening sky. -- Ally Condie
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river. -- Anthony De Mello
I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable ... -- T. S. Eliot
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud. -- W.e.b. Du Bois
Rivers do all the work,
but the ocean gets all the glory. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. -- Victor Hugo
I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god -- T. S. Eliot
The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other. -- Carole Maso
Jessica DuLong's elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of literary non-fiction with grace and energy. -- Gay Talese
If there is no room in the river,
swim to the ocean. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
Need brooks no delay, yet late is better than never. -- J.r.r. Tolkien
The time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Love as a river loves the ocean. -- Debasish Mridha
Morning mists skulked over the river. -- Jane Wilson-Howarth
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. -- Henry David Thoreau
