Quotes About River

When she set out back to Aberdeen, he planned to seize her as she forded the River Spey.

Mary was forewarned. When she reached the river crossing, she had three thousand men

His troops forded the River Esk at low tide. When they returned, it was high tide

As for the river, it just kept moving,as river do--as rivers do. Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved with the river, which jostled him to and fro--to and fro. If, at this moment in time Twisted River also appeared restless, even impatient, maybe the river itself wanted the boy's body to move on, too, move on, too.

You just go up the Hudson," I told him. "Sure, man," he said. "Up the what?

And we will shade Ourselves whole summers by a river glade; And I will tell thee stories of the sky, And breathe thee whispers of its minstrelsy, My happy love will overwing all bounds! O let me melt into thee! let the sounds Of our close voices marry at their birth; Let us entwine hoveringly!

by means of certain small scars rising along its trunk, and by a limb extending over the river, and another thinner limb growing near it. This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age...the old giants have become piggies while you were looking the other way.

The opening lines of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat are: 'There were four of us.

When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked "The river or the state?"

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.

Obstacles are a natural part of life, just as boulders are a natural part of the course of the river. The river does not complain or get depressed because there are boulders in its path.

The evening had been pleasant, but I felt roiled and muddy, my mind like river-silt stirred up from its beds.

An oath by the River Styx would hold even Zeus himself.

All the merchants who passed through these waters wanted the rich city of Knossos as their customer, and Minos knew it. He welcomed them with wide, safe moorings and agents to collect for the privilege of using them. The inns and brothels belonged to Minos also, and the gold and jewels flowed like a great river to his hands.

Time flows through the ages like an endless river, never exhausting itself.

If he keeps himself at the hub of this life in London, nothing can touch him. Here, in this skiff, in this city, in this life, he can almost persuade himself that if he were to return, he would find them as they were, unchanged, untrammelled, three children asleep in their beds. He uncovers his eyes, lifts them to the jumbled roofs of houses, dark shapes above the flexing, restless surface of the river. He shuts his long-sighted eye and stares down the city with an imperfect, watery gaze.

Only the most ignorant still believe, like Saint Augustine, that time is a river. We others know it is a delta: that it branches out and seeks new routes, that it rejoins itself only to seek a thousand new courses. Some may be waterfalls, some no more than little stagnant pools passed by the tide, forever still... This is one of those times. A pool. I sink down in it. I want to stay forever in this water.

What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.

when they rebelled a decade later, the king had 4,500 of them beheaded on the banks of the River Weser.

In 844 they sailed up the River Garonne, one of the great arteries of Francia,

immersing people from the surrounding countryside in the River Glen every day from sunrise until sunset.

On a map of Arizona, the Colorado River can be seen making a wide circle around the northern and eastern half of the state.