Rivers Quotes - Page 15

• We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Science, Mountain, Details

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• All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.

  Ethel Lynn Beers

  Fall, Forever, Sound

  "The Picket-Guard" l. 41 (1861) See Remarque 1

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• The great fish eat the small.

  Alexander Barclay

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Science, Environmental, Earth

  Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)

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• Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Hands, Bridges

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• Do you recall that night in June
  Do you recall that night in June
  Upon the Danube River;
  We listened to the ländler-tune,
  We watched the moonbeams quiver.

  Charles Hamilton Aide

  Summer, Night, June

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.

  Wayland Drew

  Spiritual, Thinking, Inward

  Wayland Drew (1988). “Willow: a novel”, Del Rey

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• What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged dangers that have threatened us! If the idea stands up, I thought, it would be worth uncovering the typewriter! How Richard-years-ago would have wanted to know: What happens when we set off searching for a soulmate who doesn't exist, and find her?

  Richard Bach

  Soulmate, Men, Typewriters

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• The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'

  Regina Spektor

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty
  And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive
  And make of the spirit your first place of account
  To the beloved, whose lights shine as from gold
  All of them worship out of fear of the fire �
  And consider deliverance abundant good fortune -
  Or, so they may dwell in the gardens, and reach
  To the meadows of paradise, and there drink from its rivers
  Of gardens or fire I have no opinion
  I seek no exchange for my dearest love

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Sleep

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• If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.

  David Foreman

  Insecure, Land, Tears

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• The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliya, and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Country, Past, Israel

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• Dripping water hollows out a stone

  Ovid

  Water, Environmental, Stones

  'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 4, no. 10, l. 5.

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• A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it is as full of good fellowship as a sugar maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects grave and gay.... For real company and friendship there is nothing, outside of the animal kingdom, that is comparable to a river.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Real, Character, Gay

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• Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.

  Eudora Welty

  Sky, Water, Horizon

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• A man of wisdom delights in water.

  Confucius

  Men, Water, Delight

  Confucius, Chichung Huang (1997). “The Analects of Confucius”, p.84, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I am haunted by waters.

  Norman Maclean

  Water, Environmental

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Dark, Desire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Acting, Next

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• It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.

  Jane Goodall

  Success, Giving Up, Inspiration

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• I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have. I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

  Danny Kaye

  Beautiful, Country, Powerful

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• We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

  John Wesley Powell

  Running, Wall, Distance

  John Wesley Powell (2003). “The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons”, p.268, Penguin

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• Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

  Saint Augustine

  Nature, Stars, Ocean

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• Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Sea, Giving

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