Rushing Water Quotes

• Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pain, Moving, Wine

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• What batters you becomes your strength.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it.

  Mark Helprin

  Rushing, Water, Watches

  Mark Helprin (2012). “In Sunlight and in Shadow”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Mother, Ice Water, Water Of Life

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• There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

  George MacDonald

  Oxygen, Rushing, White

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Rushing, Typical, Records

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• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

  Laozi

  Strong, Power, Water

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• His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with His glory.

  Christy Nockels

  Land, Voice, Rushing

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• I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Evening Light, Blue

  Winston Churchill (2012). “The Crossing”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service... I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

  Barack Obama

  Graduation, Passion, Rushing

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony in Columbia University, New York, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

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• As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Graduation, Passion

  Remarks by the President at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

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