River Quotes

• It rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • River

• I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.

  

  Ken Salazar
  • Together
  • Water
  • River

• If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in 'The Sun Also Rises' when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.

  

  Blake Crouch
  • World
  • Lost
  • Sun

• Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

  

  Barry Malzberg
  • Banks
  • Realm
  • Coin

• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Earth
  • Dance
  • Silence

• I like it when things crescendo to a huge moment like 'Hold Back the River.'

  

  James Bay
  • River

• It is a complex of buildings; a mosque, a guest house, an enormous entrance gate, four minaret towers and the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan’s wife. It is laid out in a rectangular grid on 42 acres along the Yamuna River, with water fountains and gardens and reflecting pools.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • House
  • Wife
  • Water

• 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
  • Mother
  • Sea
  • Sister

• I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Writer
  • River
  • Reflect

• No triumph of either my stage or screen career has ever rivalled the excitement of trips down the Mississippi on the river boats with my father.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Father
  • Career
  • River

• I was taken in the middle of the river as I was crossing at a shallow place to make my escape.

  

  Sacagawea
  • Taken
  • Escape
  • Crossing

• We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.

  

  Christo
  • Work
  • California
  • River

• Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.

  

  David Hewson
  • River
  • Hamlet

• I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Reeds
  • Scurrying
  • Crocodiles

• The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.

  

  Louis Bacon
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Fear

• Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • River
  • Bridge
  • Build

• Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • River

• When the world turns completely upside down You say we’ll emigrate to the Eastern Shore Aboard a river-boat from Baltimore; We’ll live among wild peach trees, miles from town, You’ll wear a coonskin cap, and I a gown Homespun, dyed butternut’s dark gold color. Lost, like your lotus-eating ancestor, We’ll swim in milk and honey till we drown.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • World
  • Live
  • Lost

• The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords the best view of the churning upper rapids of the Niagara river.

  

  Joan Lingard
  • River

• God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • God
  • Made
  • Rivers

• It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Sea
  • River

• The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.

  

  Christo
  • Work
  • Trying
  • River

• 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
  • Morning
  • River

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