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Quotes About River

Life is love and I have no love left. Love has drained itself from me, and run to a river like this one.
~ Marlon James
The moon, precious sister, thinks you are the mad one. A sky with open arms yet you will not fly. A river, her legs spread open, yet you will not dive.
~ Marlon James
pantagruelion. It is quite plainly hemp and Rabelais was obviously very familiar with it. This is hardly surprising when one considers his father had farmed hemp at Cinais, three miles south-west of Chinon, on the River Vienne.
~ Unknown
Delaware River.
~ Unknown
Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.
~ Stonewall Jackson
Then do we still need our soul mate? Oh, yes, I say, because this is the bed through which the river of our life flows from another transcendental reality, this is the infinite on which the horizon of our heart rests in other dreams or transcendental realities.
~ Sorin Cerin
Love is like a river, never ending as it flows, but gets greater with time!
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Love is the river of life in the world.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The silence stretched, and I heard a chain that was no longer there, jingling. I felt Jase holding me in a river, keeping my head above the water... If he had been cruel back then, his lies now would hurt me less.
~ Mary E. Pearson
What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something else again. But go where you will, there is no land where the dead return across the river.
~ Mary Renault
Love is an ocean, kindness is a river, and compassion is a stream.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The River Mogami has drowned Far and deep Beneath its surging waves The flaming sun of summer
~ Matsuo Bash?
We can move against the current of life, and forever meet resistance, or we can let our thoughts flow, and become the free uncertain river.
~ Matt Haig
Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab the moon's reflection on the surface and tumbled in, which is probably the poet's equivalent of dying bravely in battle.
~ Unknown
Buddhism therefore concludes that the self is just a name we give to a continuum, just as we name a river the Ganges or the Mississippi.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Merely by living, man becomes degraded and loses in purity what he gains in power. However clear a spring may be, when it becomes a river it cannot help being polluted by mud and slime.
~ Maurice Druon
A glacier is like a river; the level places where it spreads out tranquilly are followed by turbulent falls.
~ Maurice Herzog
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
~ Max Muller
From the soft bluff, I could hear the rush of the river above the hum of locusts. A fingernail sliver of moon laid out the highway gray and bent. The Little Dipper tilted. I struck a match and lit the green stem. When it sizzled, I threw it high and far, exploding the whole summer.
~ Unknown
I won't let you haunt me like a ghost. You'll always be standing between these hills, like the moon, like the river, like an alem on a minaret, like a shining apparition. You've filled this place with yourself, like a mirror, filled it with fragrance
~ Meša Selimovi?
The feeling of the cold water and the hot sun and having the river just flow over your skin like a dolphin wasn't something I had enough words to describe but was the kind of feeling you never forget. I
~ Meg Rosoff
The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks lake a lake!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Pujava olor d'aigua de riu com si fos l'aigua mateixa que visqués enlaire i que només sabia passar pel seu camí de vena.
~ Unknown
The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.
~ Meriwether Lewis