The river overflows, not the sun. (Déborde le fleuve, – Pas le soleil)

I have heard some people complain that if Jesus was God as well as man, then His suffering and death lose all value in their eyes, ‘because it must have been so easy for him.’...

The moon twangs its silver strings;The river swoons into town;The wind beds down in the pines,Covers itself with stars.

The River SwishDeftly maneuvered through the dark green abyss ~The wooden raft seemed in tune with this ~Canorous rush of theriver swish….

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

Love is like a river flowing through your heart. I’ll bring the boat, if you bring the bridge.

A night of exhilaration, of boredom and terror, in which the merest of sounds took on other forms – grew large in the expanse of darkness. After several hours the sheep gradually stopped calling to...

So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that...

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks...

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

The rivers fight with each other with the only currency that they know water. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age violence.

With networking, some people build bridges, some people burn bridges, and some people, like myself, use a boat to cross the river that divides us from one another. Well, with all the animals I associate...

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum...

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.

They’ve never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was...

Our love was a river, always changing under the mercy of nature’s elements, but we continued to flow, even when we trickled.

The savage rushing of the river seemed to be inside her head, inside her body. Even when the oarswomen, their guides, were speaking to her, she had the impression she couldn’t quite hear them because...

A nugget of wisdom is more valuable than a nugget of gold—and considerably harder to pan out of a river. I’ll be 33 in March, and all I’ve found so far is fool’s gold. Still,...

I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

Love is a choice. It’s a decision.’ She told us, ‘It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it’ll sneak around until It finds another...

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 had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

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...

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

Paris’s neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl – a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened...

The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff.

Life’s always sweeter behind River Nile! Cross it; forget the days of the bitter Bile! Leave the torture behind and give a Smile! Keep smiling; Don’t just do it just for a While!

The Kalambo River and Waterfall exemplify life and afterlife: From birth at its source, the river twists and turns to overcome hurdles on its way to enhance the life of others before falling off the...

The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank. …. The sun, westering, heavy, and hazy, was in those great...

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

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.

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the...

She wept a river of tears holy water, sent to soften the sharp edges of sorrow a gentle hollowing out, carving new chambers in her hearta hallowed vessel for holding sacred, the tears of others…

The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland.

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

Rivers don’t drink their own waters; trees don’t eat their own fruits. The salt seasons the soup in order to have its purpose fulfilled. Live for others!

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they...

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done...

They were relaxing at the top of a waterfall, in a small, still pool where the mountain waters hit an upward slope of folded granite. It was sort of a rounded bathtub, carved out of...

An extraordinary dream by lord charles wellesley. (Charlotte Bronte)’In this slumber i thought i was walking on the banks of a river… Which murmered over small pebbles at the bottom, gleaming like crystals through the...

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river’s flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I...

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along...

It is usual that little streams put their mouths into big rivers. Most rivers can also be traced to the big sea. The fact that you start with a small choice does not mean you...

The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus.

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.