Top 43 Running River Quotes

#1. Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#2. It felt like a war between two endless things, between a bottomless chasm and a running river.

Naomi Novik

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#3. A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still.

Pearl Zhu

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#4. Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

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#5. In the morning
it shuffles, unhurried,
across the wet fields
in its black slippers,
in its coal-colored coat
with the white stripe like a river
running down its spine

Mary Oliver

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#6. There is a river running through this city and every time my best friend laughs I want to grab him by the shoulders and shout Grow old with me and never kiss me on the mouth! I want to spend the next eighty years together, eating Doritos and riding bikes.

Clementine Von Radics

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#7. One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

Matt Goldman

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#8. It was actually, 'Where ever there is television, there is poor old shagged out Tom Baker running across the rocks and punting down the river.'

Tom Baker

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#9. Standing by the frozen glass, he stared down at the icy, barely lit streets running towards the river Seine, the bell-clanging local church, then to the sky like black lead. ("Israbel")

Tanith Lee

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#10. Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

Khalil Gibran

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#11. In two days going they rowed right up the Long Lake and passed out into the River Running, and now they could all see the Lonely Mountain towering grim and tall before them. The stream was strong and their going slow.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#12. I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

Garth Brooks

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#13. Salzburg ... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

Jonathan Carroll

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#14. If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.

Florence Welch

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#15. Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.

Alan DeNiro

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#16. Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.

Arthur W. Pink

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#17. Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

Will Rogers

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#18. Run to the rescue with love/and peace will follow

River Phoenix

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#19. Never duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river.

Farrah Gray

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#20. The natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

Mary Oliver

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#21. The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.

Martin Luther

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#22. There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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#23. Light came out of this river since - you say Knights? Yes, but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

Joseph Conrad

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#24. I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

Walter Payton

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#25. The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

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#26. The four of us sit together in the sea of blue, the train twisting and turning like a river running, and I know it's hard to fight against a current as strong as the Society.

Ally Condie

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#27. Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

David R. Brower

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#28. The river knows the way to the sea:
Without a pilot it runs and falls,
Blessing all lands with its charity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#29. Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.

Gautama Buddha

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#30. We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

Jonis Agee

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#31. The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

Maya Angelou

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#32. Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.

Andrea Dworkin

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#33. I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

Sam Cooke

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#34. Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness
and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror
and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing
and the night cold and the night long and the river
to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning
and blackness ahead

Robert Hayden

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#35. It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

Bassem Youssef

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#36. Oriel didn't move. But inside of his head, all was movement, like a river running over rapids, searching for the way through, trying routes around rocks and over shallows, a turbulence of thought more rapid than he could follow. Griff, he knew, would do and say nothing until he heard Oriel's choice.

Cynthia Voigt

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#37. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise,
He who defers this work from day to day,
Does on a river's bank expecting stay,
Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone,
That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.

Abraham Cowley

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#38. For one moment, I felt like a river running down to his ocean.

Rosamund Hodge

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#39. 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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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#40. I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.

Augusto De Luca

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#41. . . . This
is not the same river at my fingertips.
There are no paths, no sunken roads
familiar in the forest, by which we can
retrace our steps,
by which we can escape
by which we can reclaim and return,
or hear the child's song running in the timothy . . .

John Daniel Thieme

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#42. If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.

Amor Towles

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#43. I live in a market town in a mill house with the river running both sides and Somerfield's car park only a loose nine iron away, and I really, really, really love it.

David Hemmings

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