“Everything is like the rivers: the work of the slopes.”

“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.”

Virginia Woolf book Night and Day

“Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains…”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

“I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“A good river is nature's life work in song.”

Mark Helprin book Freddy and Fredericka

“Run like the river.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

“Wise men say that time is like a river. I say time is like a river of SHIT… and as you float down that river in your little canoe, your paddles are getting smaller and smaller.”

Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor

“Not only can you not step into the same river twice; it is not even the same you who can’t step into the same river twice. Everything modifies everything. There is no niche in the past waiting for him to come back and occupy it. Nature will tolerate a paradox, but she abhors a vacuum.”

Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) American writer

“Life in us is like the water in a river.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist