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What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with the hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the dragon-fly on the river.
View quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
View quotes by Horace

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
View quotes by Chuang Tzu

'A man should be what he can do' [Red River]
View quotes by Montgomery Clift

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
View quotes by Mark Twain

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side
View quotes by Alain-Rene Lesage

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river
View quotes by Nikita Khrushchev

That was a little uncomfortable [on taking over from River Phoenix in Interview With The Vampire]
View quotes by Christian Slater

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
View quotes by Horace

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
View quotes by Thornton Wilder

To take wine into our mouths is to savour a droplet of the river of human history.
View quotes by Clifton Fadiman

The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees.
View quotes by Rudyard Kipling

As one comes down the Henry Hudson Parkway along the river in the dusk, New York is never real; it is always fabulous.
View quotes by Anthony Bailey

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
View quotes by J B Priestley

On the person who stole his guitar: "Whoever you are out there, you can safely take it back to Virgin and nothing will be done. Or you can find yourself floating in the River Mersey."
View quotes by Richard Ashcroft

As she lay floating in the grey river that flows between sleeping and waking, Maggie Campion knew, without remembering why, that it was a happy day.
View quotes by Anne Parrish

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.
View quotes by Frederick Marryat

Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.
View quotes by Gerald Manley Hopkins

Ten minutes to midnight: a pious Friday evening in May and a fine river mist lying in the market square.
View quotes by John Le Carre

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
View quotes by Simon Newcomb



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