Sentence examples for time is a river from inspiring English sources

Time is a river -- he accepts the truism.

Time is a river, and in jail/prison it moves at the rate of molasses (the metaphor is not mine).

Gay also produced and directed the educational film Where Time is a River, which won First Prize at the first Women's Film Festival and was subsequently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art Archive of Films.

When the writer Jorge Luis Borges gave a talk about his pet theory that the best metaphors are cliched dead metaphors -- time is a river, life is a dream -- the sound was piped out the door of a big auditorium so the overflow crowd of young acolytes could hear.

Why shouldn't time be a river, with the past always there, a bend or two back, reachable if you can just figure how to cut across country, so to speak?

"Christmas time is a wonderful time to cruise the rivers of Europe," says cruise expert Stewart Chiron, aka The Cruise Guy.

This building is a landscape, this house is a time machine, that park is a river and its tributaries.

It is a river of time where, different from Heraclitus' dictum, the narrator — stricken motionless by memory — is condemned to bathe over and over in the same water.

I was probably having a mild seizure of some kind, but while the state was upon me I had the feeling that time was a series of pieces fit together like joints in furniture, and every now and then one encountered the seams, rather than having time be like, say, a river, or a wheel that turned in an orderly way.

One time, there was a river in Bucharest.

The Isle of Wight was not only once much bigger, with those downlands rising higher and further to the south, but it was also connected to the UK mainland at a time when the Solent was a river rather than a passage of open water.