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Quotes About River

The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.
~ Clarence H. Burns
WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.
~ Jack Gilbert
It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.
~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.
~ T. S. Eliot
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
~ Aldo Leopold
Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.
~ Tony Bishop
I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, theonly time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in theHuang Pu river.
~ Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
Only the Creator defines path of a river course.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A river flow freely from its source.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.
~ Jack London, White Fang
Quiet Days, they look at you, and you will become one with the holy river - nature forms a symbiotic relationship - absolute infinity, truly found, in harmonious caressing arms.
~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.
~ James R. Swartz
James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.
~ Kaley Cuoco
I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.
~ Sam Cooke
Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love is the bridge that crosses over the river of hate.
~ Debasish Mridha
Life is like a flowing river. Just like the speed of time, it will never come back.
~ Debasish Mridha
Mine is the river.where the love runs deep, that if you fall in, you'll be mine to keep.
~ Anthony T Hincks
Whenever a river reaches the ocean, it waits to go back..
~ Will Advise
The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.
~ Manmohan Acharya
Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'
~ Carl Sandburg
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.
~ Mary Oliver, Red Bird
Ya got cigarettes?" she asks. "Yes, " I say, "I got cigarettes." "Matches?" she asks."Enough to burn Rome." "Whiskey?""Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain." "You drunk?" "Not yet.
~ Charles Bukowski