Rivers Quotes

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.

The best verse hasn’t been rhymed yet, The best house hasn’t been planned, The highest peak hasn’t been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren’t spanned.

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.

It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way.