Top River Quotes
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Edward F. Halifax
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
Nagarjuna
We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.
Roy Barnes
Ernest Thompson Seton 
Vinoba Bhave 
Lord Acton 
Daniel Boone 
Eartha Kitt 
Thornton Wilder 
Pablo Neruda 
Christo 
Charles Schumer 
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It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
James Houston 
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
Eartha Kitt
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What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.
Joseph Wambaugh
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In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
Frederick Carl Frieseke
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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
Mikhail Lermontov
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Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.
Mike Rounds
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Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.
Robert Brady
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim
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Popular River Authors
Mark TwainVictor HugoFrancis BaconBlaise PascalHenry Ward Beecher HoraceKahlil GibranLyndon B. JohnsonW. H. AudenChief JosephPaul CezanneBuffalo BillCyril ConnollyMargot KidderLeonardo DiCaprio
Charles Schumer HeraclitusThornton WilderTom FeltonJonathan CarrollLafcadio HearnJorge Luis BorgesBob EdwardsBlack ElkAlbert FinneyRon KindJ. B. Priestley ChristoPeter GarrettJay Inslee
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