53 Movie Quotes about Rivers (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 27, 2025

Memorable quotes about rivers, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 We're at the mercy of the Gotham River tide.

Adam West as Bruce Wayne - Batman in Batman (1966)

2 There's no knowing where we're rowing or which way the river's flowing.

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

3 I wish for the Nile.

Scott Weinger as Aladdin in Aladdin (1992)

4 They filled in that river. It's all apartments now.

Daveigh Chase as Chihiro Ogino in Spirited Away

5 The river's changed, hasn't it? And that smell. Why, it's like marigolds, stale marigolds. -Not a very good smell for a flower. -They're very pretty, though, marigolds.

Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut; Greer Garson as Rose in The African Queen (1952)

6 Who calls him on the phone? -If you're a good swimmer, you can ask the guy who found out. He's at the bottom of the river.

Zero Mostel as Big Babe Lazick in The Enforcer (1951)

7 Where does that elevator go? -Downstairs, obviously... to an abandoned submarine dock on the river.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

8 She leapt to her death into the river that you spoke of. In my mother's tongue it is called Argesh. River princess.

Gary Oldman as Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

9 Up the river, you birds of a filthy feather.

Burt Ward as Robin in Batman (1966)

10 Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of _ and came out clean on the other side.

Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd Red Redding in The Shawshank Redemption

53 Movie Quotes about Rivers (+ Sound Clips)

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