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Quotes About River

'Harlem River' is about the Harlem River in uptown Manhattan. I don't know much to say about it. I came upon that river a couple of years ago. I was doing a walk the length of Manhattan, from the top to the bottom, and I had never seen that river before.
~ Kevin Morby
Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.
~ Richie Furay
Man doth usurp all space, Stares thee, in rock, bush, river, in the face. Never thine eyes behold a tree; 'Tis no sea thou seest in the sea, 'Tis but a disguised humanity. To avoid thy fellow, vain thy plan; All that interests a man, is man. HENRY SUTTON.
~ George MacDonald
the guard house of the bloodiest valley in Britain. One is not surprised to learn that an early owner was boiled alive by impatient neighbours; there is a menace about the massive walls, about the rain-soaked hillside, about the dreary gurgle of the river.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence.
~ George Saunders
One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.
~ Ron Kind
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.
~ Forest Whitaker
At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
~ Bob Edwards
I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.
~ David Walliams
I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season.
~ Joe Gebbia
In all the known realms of this earth, only the queens of Weirandale had hair of that color: the cerulean blue of the icy Nargis River—the blue of a blue tanager.
~ Sarah Kozloff
The river runs through the heart of the city, and braiding around and over and under the river, the city's rail system is a welter of tarnished silver ribbons.
~ Sarah Monette
A river flows through the city's heart, sullen and sluggish, but brown and hungry and strong. And the city itself is a snarl, a brawl, a festered wound. It seethes and rails and bides its time.
~ Sarah Monette
I am too weary. For oh, I am so terribly weary at last! I think, in all of London, there is no-one and nothing so weary as I—unless perhaps the river, which flows beneath the frigid sky, through its accustomed courses, to the sea. How deep, how black, how thick the water seems to-night! How soft its surface seems to lie. How chill its depths must be.
~ Sarah Waters
Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth on average .
~ Satyajit Das
Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.
~ Scott Lynch
But time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.
~ Scott Lynch
But time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think." He smiled down at Locke with real affection.
~ Scott Lynch
Q: What do you call a small river that runs into the Nile? A: Juvenile.
~ Scott McNeely
I cannot be weaned/Off the earth's long contour, her river-veins.
~ Seamus Heaney
Like a stone on the surface of a still river Driving the ripples on forever Redemption rips through the surface of time In the cry of a tiny babe.
~ Bruce Cockburn
My favorite movie of all time is probably Apocalypse Now.
~ Dominic Monaghan
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
~ Doris Lessing