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
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
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
We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.
Roy Barnes
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J. B. Priestley 
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Black Elk 
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A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.
Francis Parkman 
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I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.
Hassan Nasrallah
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Victor Hugo
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We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
John Hope
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
Lafcadio Hearn
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One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.
Ron Kind
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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. PriestleyPeter GarrettJay InsleeChen Shui-bian
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