Cry A River Quotes

#1. If someone hurts you, cry a river, then build a bridge and get over it. Unknown

Joyce Meyer

#2. If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

Taylor Swift

#3. Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I'd done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

Clive Barker

#5. In the event of a plane crash, locate the nearest woman with implants and use her as a flotation device. ***

Various

#6. Like a stone on the surface of a still river
Driving the ripples on forever
Redemption rips through the surface of time
In the cry of a tiny babe.

Bruce Cockburn

#7. Grief is just so scary ... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.

Anne Lamott

#8. An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress

W.B.Yeats

#9. In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes me want to cry. Oh to clean our dirty planet, Now there's a noble wish, And I'm puttin' my shoulder to the wheel 'Cause I wanna catch some fish.

Greg Brown

#10. Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

Alan Greenspan

#11. Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#12. You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT

Rachel Renee Russell

#13. Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you

Judith Weir

#14. Then the Kolokolo Bird said with a mournful cry, Go to the banks of the great, grey-green greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.

Rudyard Kipling

#15. The previous Madison Spencer would bother to hold their frightened hand, to calm and comfort them. Who I am now, however, I tell them to cry me a stinking shit river and fall down dead, already.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Paton

#18. Oh, well. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and drive the hell over it.

Jennifer Probst

#19. Tigers never cry but when they do they drift everyone with them into a river of an ancient pain

A. Mani

#20. Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.

Timothy Noah

#21. Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#22. It is almost impossible to get anyone with a postmodern slant to say "I think" and stand by what follows, without making sure that the person listening understands, "Of course, there are other things to consider.

Gudjon Bergmann

#23. There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

Edgar Winter

#24. That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

Common

#25. I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

Liam Payne

#26. The iron heart that does not bleed The iron wing that does not break They exist, here and now

Tsugumi Ohba

#27. Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#28. His gaze is fixed on me: calm, unflappable; 2 buckets of river water at midnight. I'd like to cry into his eyes.

Tahereh Mafi

#29. You got shot? Where? How? By who?" He zipped up in the air, darting left to right, right to left. "Did you cry? I would've cried. A lot. Like a river of motherfucking tears.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#30. Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help ...

Edith Stein

#31. Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.

Plato

#32. The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

George D. Prentice

#33. Sister, mother
And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,
Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.

T. S. Eliot

#34. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

Justin Timberlake