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A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas. -- Francis Parkman
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. -- John Hope
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. -- Max Muller
Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention. -- Pierce Brosnan
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools. -- Billy Sunday
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. -- Vinoba Bhave
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. -- Victor Hugo
Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. -- Clive Anderson
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. -- William Bartram
I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment. -- Steve Southerland
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. -- Jose Saramago
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
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
In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge. -- Haile Gebrselassie
The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them. -- Martin Van Creveld
The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion -- Vinnie Paz
I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream. -- Henry David Thoreau
Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation. -- George Habash
Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders -- Peter Matthiessen
I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank. -- Langston Hughes
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way, And every Bulrush on the river bank A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray. -- Oliver Herford
The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind. -- A. G. Mohan
The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change. -- Prince William

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