River Quotes - page 20

She was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all. (Lord Byron)
Pesotsky had an immense house with columns and lions, off which the stucco was peeling, and with a footman in swallow-tails at the entrance. The old park, laid out in the English style, gloomy and severe, stretched for almost three-quarters of a mile to the river, and there ended in a steep, precipitous clay bank, where pines grew with bare roots that looked like shaggy paws; the water shone below with an unfriendly gleam, and the peewits flew up with a plaintive cry, and there one always felt that one must sit down and write a ballad. View quote
Anton Chekhov
All I had to do was to cross the river, capture Brussels, and then go on to take the port of Antwerp. The snow was waist-deep and there wasn't room to deploy four tanks abreast, let alone six armored divisions. It didn't get light until eight and was dark again at four, and my tanks can't fight at night. And all this at Christmas time! View quote
Sepp Dietrich
Remember the words of the Bible in Amos 5:24, 'Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-falling stream'. View quote
Frank Bainimarama
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... View quote
Gary Ross
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow. View quote
J. Sidlow Baxter
Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. View quote
Larry McMurtry
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. View quote
Horace
I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever. View quote
John Townsend Trowbridge
Did you see them in the river? They were there to wave to you. Could you tell that the empty quiver, Brown skinned Indian on the banks That were crowded and narrow, Held a broken arrow? View quote
Neil Young
Where the eagle glides ascending There's an ancient river bending Through the timeless gorge of changes Where sleeplessness awaits. (Neil Young)
Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracks. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires a zephyr floats; a bird whistles; a freshet bears away from a choked river. View quote
Mervyn Peake
Like to a leafless tree, Dry river bed, or house in pathless waste, Is gentle blood that hath no courtesy. View quote
Francesco Berni
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! View quote
Allen Ginsberg
What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. View quote
William Shakespeare
Villain, a horse-- Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly, To swim the river, villain, and to fly. View quote
George Peele
If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever. View quote
Lois Lowry
You ask me why do I dwell in these green mountains, But I smile without a reply, only an easy mind. The river flows away silently, bearing the fallen peach blossoms, Here is another world, but not the world of men. View quote
Li Bai
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. View quote
Jacques Barzun
As a young man, Valmiki searched through the world seeking open friendship and happiness and hope and finding none of these he went alone into the empty forest where no man lived, to as spot where the Tamasa River flows into Ganga. There he sat for years without moving, so still that white ants built an anthill over him. There Valmiki sat inside that anthill for thousands of years with only his eyes showing out, trying to find the True, his hands folded and his mind lost in contemplation. View quote
Valmiki
Valmiki stood up and broke free out of that hard anthill. Suddenly he saw all around him many houses of hermits and their families, young trees carefully watered, a retreat cleared from the forest. Four boys ran up to him from the river and cried "The wife of some great warrior weeps by Ganges. She is fair as a Goddess fallen from heaven, all bewildered, all alone, never seen before, with child, and with small gifts tied from the city within a silk cloth beside her. Go to her, welcome her and protect her. (Valmiki)
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. View quote
Mark Twain
Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked. The grand corrective is the cross of Christ, seen in the sanctuary where the life and light of God are exhibited, and where the reverberation of the echoes from the great white throne are heard. View quote
Richard Salter Storrs
Time is a river, and books are boats. View quote
Dan Brown
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. View quote
Norman Maclean