{"quotes":[{"text":"If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.","author":"Therese Anne Fowler","tags":["patience","rivers","soul"],"id":4343,"author_id":"Therese+Anne+Fowler"},{"text":"The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city….","author":"Charles Finch","tags":["language","lights","london","rivers","thames"],"id":15094,"author_id":"Charles+Finch"},{"text":"I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["deserts","heart","love","mountains","rivers","skies"],"id":17145,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.","author":"Jo Deurbrouck","tags":["adventure","adventure-stories","adventure-travel","rivers"],"id":19891,"author_id":"Jo+Deurbrouck"},{"text":"The river this November afternoonRests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroudIts passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.","author":"Cecil Day-Lewis","tags":["autumn","fall","november","river","rivers","the-double-vision"],"id":26902,"author_id":"Cecil+Day-Lewis"},{"text":"Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["accumulated","distant","distant-past","grandfather","grandfathers","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","know-yourself","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","past","past","past","past","rivers","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","valleys"],"id":36263,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.","author":"David James Duncan","tags":["rivers","stories"],"id":38905,"author_id":"David+James+Duncan"},{"text":"A river unneeded still finds its way down to the ocean...","author":"Will Advise","tags":["need","ocean","path","river","rivers","unneeded","way"],"id":41371,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? 'What has this god of yours ever really done for you?' She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. 'Everything.","author":"Francine Rivers","tags":["a","a-voice-in-the-wind","a-voice-in-the-wind","francine","francine-rivers","francine-rivers","in","rivers","the","voice","wind"],"id":55022,"author_id":"Francine+Rivers"},{"text":"There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.","author":"Joyce Rachelle","tags":["bench","benches","inspiration-from-nature","inspiration-in-nature","loving-nature","nature","rivers","riverside","solitude","trees"],"id":55915,"author_id":"Joyce+Rachelle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":73,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}