666 Quotes About Rivers

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture.

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.