Rivers Quotes - Page 12

• By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Running, Rain, Water

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• I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day.

  Theodore Roethke

  Summer, Rain, Water

  Theodore Roethke (2005). “Selected Poems”

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• But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Wind, Water

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [401]

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• Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

  Richard Wilbur

  Rain, Water, Flattery

  Richard Wilbur, “A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the VILLa Sciarra”

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• In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.

  Yosa Buson

  Spring, Rain, Water

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• I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.

  T. S. Eliot

  Strong, Rain, Thinking

  T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages”

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• It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.

  Wallace Stevens

  Rain, Fall, Winter

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.179, Vintage

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• A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

  William Cowper

  Life, Success, Wise

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.155

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• Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of that valley. To think of any river as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part of it.

  Hal Borland

  Rain, Thinking, Water

  "Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country".

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• The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
  It rains, and the wind in never weary;
  The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
  But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
  And the day is dark and dreary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Rain, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.18, Library of America

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• The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Rain, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.560, Delphi Classics

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• Tis rushing now adown the spout,
  And gushing out below,
  Half frantic in its joyousness,
  And wild in eager flow.
  The earth is dried and parched with heat,
  And it hath long'd to be
  Released from out the selfish cloud,
  To cool the thirsty tree.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Selfish, Rain, Clouds

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• Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

  Deepak Chopra

  Anxiety, Trying, Breathe

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• In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car windows are down. It raineth on the Just and the Unjust Alike, But the Unjust stealeth the Just's umbrella Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Spring, Rain, Fall

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• As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Swim, Path

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

  Will Durst

  Fun, Hate, Lakes

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• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther

  Change, War, Reality

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• You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

  Don Shula

  Travel, Distance, Years

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• So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Running, Travel, Past

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

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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Nature, Laughter

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• My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
  Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence.
  Thy love is such I can no way repay,
  The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Famous Love, Love Is, Giving

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love... People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.

  Dalai Lama

  Distance, Ocean, Flower

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• The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Grief, Intuition

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that you'll have insights as to what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Order, People, Mind

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• Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.

  William James

  Science, Expression, Talking

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 9 (1890).

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