Famous quotes containing the words river and/or floods:
“It is impossible to step into the same river twice.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)
“When raging love with extreme pain
Most cruelly distrains my heart,
When that my tears, as floods of rain,
Bear witness of my woeful smart;
When sighs have wasted so my breath
That I lie at the point of death,”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)