River
One who rives or splits.
A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
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River Quotations
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Khalil Gibran
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Paulo Coelho
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus
When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
Leonardo DiCaprio
You cannot step into the same river twice.
Heraclitus
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
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
Brian Clough
River Translations
river in Afrikaans is rivier
river in Danish is flod
river in Dutch is rivier, stroom
river in Finnish is joki
river in Italian is fiume, fluviale
river in Latin is flumen
river in Norwegian is elv, flod
river in Portuguese is rio
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