Quotes of: River Keyword

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Max Muller

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

Matthew Fox

Dr. Simon Tam: River... River Tam: I know. We're going for a ride.

Serenity

Colonel Green: Good show! Jolly good show, Major!

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Colonel Nicholson: Queer bird... even for an American.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.

Congolese

The water of the river flows on without waiting for the thirsty man.

Kenyan

One man cut the barrage, and a thousand people fell into the river.

Kashmiri

The water from the river becomes salty when it reaches the ocean.

Sanskrit

You cannot cross a river without getting wet.

Zulu

The bastard. How dare he? I was drowning in a fucking river that he was still attempting to save me from, and he was telling me he was going to push me back in and hold me under. My father's death had nearly destroyed me. Cal's death would finish me.

Into This River I Drown

The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I ha...

Jayber Crow

There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

when that small Siberian bird fell out of the sky over Gray's River, not once but twice, he brought with him the sweetness of chance in any place, the certainty of wonder in all places. And if that's not grace, I don't know what it.

Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.

Saving the Sheriff: A Three River Ranch Novella

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

The River of Winged Dreams

Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.

The River of Winged Dreams

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

Chen Shui-bian

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

Jerry Costello

Colonel Nicholson: [recognizes Shears] You? Major Shears: [lunges at Nicholson] You!

The Bridge on the River Kwai