River Quotes - page 6

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. (David Levithan)
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through. View quote
David Nicholls
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. View quote
James Patterson
Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river? View quote
Kristin Cashore
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank. View quote
Langston Hughes
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss. View quote
Langston Hughes
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home. View quote
Joanne Harris
At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river. View quote
Bob Edwards
Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood? View quote
Anita Desai
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. View quote
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched. (Izumi Shikibu)
I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards. View quote
Ishmael Beah
Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party. View quote
Terry Southern
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. View quote
G. Stanley Hall
A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation. View quote
Fumiko Enchi
Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river. View quote
Ann Rutherford
I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help. View quote
Bruce Dern
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. View quote
Buffalo Bill
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants. View quote
Carol P. Christ
I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way. View quote
Diana Krall
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town. (Emeril Lagasse)
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino. View quote
Frederick Reines
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. View quote
Frank Yerby
The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land. View quote
George Vancouver
It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off. View quote
Gilberto Hernandez