River Quotes

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain

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

Life, Death, Sea

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden

Love, Meet, Africa

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Paulo Coelho

Falling, Staying, Drown

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius

Time, Strong, Place

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus

Same, Twice, Steps

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

Him, Lives, Quarrel

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

Morning, Read, Water

Love is the river of life in the world.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

Before, Changing, Images

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo

Against, Boat, Reaction

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
Nagarjuna

Together, Down, Move

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon

Light, Fame, Solid

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

Dirty, Says, Activist

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
Horace

Time, Death, Down

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace

Before, Living, Run

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Life, Love, Men

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.
Haile Gebrselassie

School, Down, Rainy

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges

Time, Fire, Made

You cannot step into the same river twice.
Heraclitus

Same, Cannot, Step

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
Max Muller

Life, Change, Same

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.
Ted Nugent

America, Process, Fence

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Enoch Powell

Mean, Means, Journey

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
Chief Joseph

Lost, Made, Find

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda

Poetry, Rain, Between

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
Kerry Washington

Love, Family, Women

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne

Busy, Place, Here

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
Eartha Kitt

Path, Means, Wind

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.
Jerry Saltz

Problems, Water, Ocean

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Thornton Wilder

Time, Rather, Eye

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