666 Quotes About Rivers

  • Author James A. Baldwin
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    I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

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  • Author John Betjeman
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    Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.

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  • Author Josh Billings
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    Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

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  • Author Kathleen Battle
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    In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

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  • Author Louis Bacon
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    I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

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