Top 325 River Quotes

What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that’s not the kind of a state that’s going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
Ian Lustick
The Hudson River Tunnel is a chokepoint for the financial center – and most productive region – of the United States. It is the most heavily trafficked piece of rail in the entire country and even a partial closure will suffocate our nation’s economy.
Mikie Sherrill
It’s true what they say: Nothing tastes quite like the East River.
Jack Schlossberg
The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.
William Henry Ashley
If you ask an actor what he’d prefer to act on, he’d probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location out on a mountainside or by a river. It’s just easier because you don’t have to imagine anything.
Luke Evans
I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.
Ken Salazar
I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic an

I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I’ve rowed in various places, including the Ganges in India, the River Shannon in Ireland, and the Sea of Galilee.
Rosemary Mahoney
I remember specifically a couple of performances that I saw when I was young – River Phoenix in ‘Stand by Me’ and also Michael Jackson, in particular his ability to command such power and love while maintaining such deep vulnerability. It really moved my soul from a very young age.
Asia Kate Dillon
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
Richard Harding Davis
But now, today, we don’t know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.
Christo
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
Nagarjuna
If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don’t think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.
Sarah Parcak
Love is the river of life in the world.
Henry Ward Beecher
It’s an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I’m really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.
Steve McFadden
Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens of Washington State to finally have the Hanford nuclear site cleaned up. Think about how tangible it would be to the citizens along the Hudson River to fix that pollution. These are some of the most direct things we can do to benefit our environment.
Scott Pruitt
We’re not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we’re eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We’re dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We’re going for the building blocks.
Anohni
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim
I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife – from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.
Antony Gormley
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.
J. G. Ballard
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
Black Elk
The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the highest water quality in Connecticut.
Elizabeth Esty
Show-wise, I love ‘Little Shop’ and ‘Big River’, ‘Avenue Q,’ and ‘Spring Awakening’.
Eric McCormack
We will protect Punjab’s right over its river waters and fight hard to get back Chandigarh and Punjabi-speaking areas.
Gurpreet Ghuggi
I like to be able to go out to dinner once in a while. I like to be able to drive my MG up the McKenzie River on a weekday afternoon. I like to be able to pay my bills on time.
Steve Prefontaine
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal
It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.
Chris Kilham
Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn’t – they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.
Ann Rutherford
Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay.
Robert Brady
I row my boat on the river. I swim, ski, walk, lift weights, do yoga and Pilates. I don’t want to be a weak, sick 90-year-old.
Lynda Carter
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
Saint Ambrose
Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn’t part of America’s immigration process.
Ted Nugent
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river’s health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.
Ron Kind
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
Eartha Kitt
I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don’t see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.
Anthony Bourdain
Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River has long been the mother of waters for mid-Atlantic rowers, just as the Charles, which separates Boston from Cambridge, is for New England boaters.
Roger Morris
We’re loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.
Richard Dean Anderson
When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and I was just in heaven.
Dick Dale
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
Jay Inslee
I’ve always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, ‘So Cold the River,’ for which the brilliant strings piece ‘Short Trip Home,’ composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.
Michael Koryta
It’s the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.
Giles Foden
I’ve only had one platinum album, and it’s ‘Red River Blue’.
Blake Shelton
I resisted Twitter for a long time. To me, it was synonymous with networking, which in my mind means unceasing self-promotion and superficial small-talk with strangers. A little like wading into a river with a raging current – and I’m a terrible swimmer.
Celeste Ng
When I heard ‘Moon River’, at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to the words and realized this song was about Huck Finn. I just love the words, that it’s kind of you and me against the world, and we’re going to make it together.
Drew Holcomb
Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
I live in a beautiful part of the world – western New Hampshire along the Baker River – and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.
Joseph Monninger
I finished ‘Hell or High Water’ and started writing ‘Wind River’ literally the next day.
Taylor Sheridan
I’ve always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
Daniel Woodrell
I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
William Christopher Handy
Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.
David Hewson
Just to see if I liked vlogging, I uploaded a video of my sister and I cleaning up a river in a canoe for Earth Day. The sound was horrible, and the quality was horrible… But you have to blog what’s interesting to you and not care what anyone thinks.
Rosanna Pansino
We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for ‘Over the River,’ we started in 1992. I was just finishing ‘The Umbrellas’ in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.
Christo