John Masefield Quotes

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city.

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

Spanish and Dutch ships with whose help we would hasten to the banks of the Thames and destroy the new Carthage [London]

I want to thank my two English clubs: Liverpool for bringing me to the Premier League and Chelsea for the trophies I won.

I'm a Londoner. Embankment. Big Ben. Cab drivers.

I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.

I lived in London, went to the London School of Economics, do a lot of business in London, and have a lot of fun in London.

Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.

A piece of my heart will always be with Liverpool.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river.

Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart

I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.