River Quotes

• For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.

  

  Edward Rutherfurd
  • Family
  • America
  • Father

• Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of that valley. To think of any river as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part of it.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Water

• Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • War
  • Revolution
  • June

• Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows as a river, then merges with the sea, the goes up again as a cloud.

  

  Yasmin Zarine Shahmir
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Water

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

  

  Louis Bacon
  • Proud
  • Forever
  • Red

• What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.

  

  Gabriel Orozco
  • Rest
  • Perception
  • Flow

• I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Time
  • Help
  • Waiting

• I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • Up
  • City
  • River

• Tell me now in what hidden way isLady Flora the lovely Roman?Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,Neither of them the fairer woman?Where is Echo, beheld of no man,Only heard on river and mere-She whose beauty was more than human?-But where are the snows of yester-year?

  

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • She
  • River

• At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like 'That's a busted tire floating by' and 'That's an old shoe'?

  

  Peggy Noonan
  • Life
  • Stop
  • River

• The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

  

  Brian Clough
  • River

• My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?

  

  Jack Roy
  • Teacher
  • Son
  • Idiot

• Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Existence
  • Ice
  • Shatters

• Huck and - and the slave.... they … they were going up the river, trying to get free…. and - in trying to get free … they see that they're sort of free already…

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Free

• The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Truth
  • Question
  • Flows

• The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • World
  • River

• Using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, 'The die is cast,' he took the river.

  

  Plutarch
  • Die
  • River
  • Bold

• River City Improv set the stage for my career.

  

  Marc Evan Jackson
  • Career
  • City
  • River

• Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Dream
  • Ambition
  • Rivers

• I lived near the border with China, and one night, I simply left home and walked across the iced-over river that separated the two countries. I was fortunate that my family had close relationships with some of the border guards, so I was able to cross without incident.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Family
  • Home
  • Night

• I was growing up in Hyesan, right by the closest North Korea-China border. China was just across the river: you could see across. So I was curious. On the river, on both sides, you have houses, then mountains. I wanted to know what was on the other side of the Chinese mountains.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Chinese

• Trinity River Vision is huge for Fort Worth.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Vision
  • River

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