Quotes About River Thames

#1. I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.

Alexander Hanson

#2. Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.

Amy Butler Greenfield

#3. My love admits no qualifying dross

William Shakespeare

#4. The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

John Masefield

#5. TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told:

Rudyard Kipling

#6. He held her forever. Ashy flickers swam in his eyes, shadows of temptation drawing her into infinite depths. A breath away from his tantalising mouth, she parted her lips. The thudding of her pulse hurt. The knocking of her heart brushed her soul. She sank into him.

Chris Lange

#7. The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it.

J.G. Ballard

#8. There's nothing so unattractive as vanity ... particularly male vanity.

Rafe Spall

#9. I absolutely love Nicole Scherzinger. She's worked really hard to get to where she is and really knows her stuff.

Rebecca Ferguson

#10. The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

Cyril Connolly

#11. I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

Natalie Dormer

#12. There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live them in ignorance. And this is everything.

Sharon Salzberg

#13. I'm guessing this isn't the Mississippi," I said.
"The River of Night," Bloodstained Blade hummed. "It is every river and no river - the shadow of the Mississippi, the Nile, the Thames. It flows throughout the Duat, with many branches and tributaries."
"Clears that right up," I muttered.

Rick Riordan

#14. If you want to be happy, practise it every day

Robert Anton Wilson

#15. Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

Stephen Kinzer

#16. We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman