The River King Quotes

#1. The king nodded. "What are the priests doing about this?" he said.

"I saw them throwing one another in the river, sir."

The king nodded again. "That sounds about right," he said. "They've come to their senses at last.

Terry Pratchett

#2. My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Alice Walker

#3. In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke.

Stephen King

#4. You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you, said the Lion.

C.S. Lewis

#5. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Then, if you get mad at me, I know you are dealing with yourself. I am the excuse for you to get mad.

Miguel Ruiz

#7. You want to talk about big things, but it's the catches on the garden sheds and the London Zoo cards that give you the footholds; without them you wouldn't know where to start.

Nick Hornby

#8. He felt like a mobile library. Where other investigators gathered fingerprints and evidence, he gathered books.

Louise Penny

#9. He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.

Kate DiCamillo

#10. At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

Jose Saramago

#11. The dead river of its breath would wash over him.

Stephen King

#12. Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I never expected.

Lauren Slater

#13. Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Stephen King

#14. The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

Jesse Eisenberg

#15. Time is not a river, as Einstein theorized - it's a big fucking buffalo herd that runs us down and eventually mashes us into the ground, dead and bleeding, with a hearing aid plugged into one ear and a colostomy bag instead of a .44 clapped on one leg.

Stephen King

#16. And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

George R R Martin

#17. Corey Bryant sank into a great forgetful river, and that river was time, and its waters were red.

Stephen King

#18. We have come to a stream of blood. That it will lead us to a river of the same stuff I have no doubt. And, further along, to an ocean. In this world the graves yawn and none of the dead rest easy.

Stephen King

#19. Every King, like the river, is evident by his currents

Dora Okeyo

#20. That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back
'
'I hate that.'
King Midas & Lit

Rick Riordan

#21. They went to the column, where they stole a few more quiet minutes together, listening to the river wear its way deeper into the earth, the way people wear grooves into each other's hearts.

Jeff Zentner

#22. I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#23. Every time somebody on Facebook changes their status to engaged or married, I panic. I'm convinced Facebook was invented to make single people feel bad about their lives.

Meg Jay

#24. Cartography. A watershed is an area of land, usually mountains or forests, that drains into a river. History is also a river. Wouldn't you say so?

Stephen King

#25. She'd been only eight when Arobynn Hamel, her mentor and the King of the Assassins, found her half-submerged on the banks of a frozen river and brought her to his keep on the border between Adarlan and Terrasen.

Sarah J. Maas

#26. You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're
supposed to be civilized and cultured - to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

George Bernard Shaw

#27. Keep your eye on the goal, not the steps you must take to reach it. The goal is everything. The steps are nothing. No matter how difficult the journey is, the goal is always worth it.

Jessica Khoury

#28. The course of a person's life, like the course of a river, may likewise be changed by means of ingenious and timely precautions.

Ross King

#29. They sometimes behave like the Delphic oracle that told King Croesus that if he crossed the Halys River he would destroy a large kingdom. It was only after he had been completely defeated in battle after the crossing that he discovered that the kingdom meant by the oracle was his own.

C. G. Jung

#30. The weatherman is always as honest as he is vague.

Laura Kasischke

#31. History is also a river.

Stephen King