Rivers Quotes - Page 17

• Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

  James Patterson

  Egypt, Denial

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• You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Baby, Bridges, Insulting

  Rachel Renée Russell (2010). “Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.

  Rick Riordan

  Night, Wind, Care

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• Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Goodbye, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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• I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.

  Bonnie Baker

  Song, Believe, Writing

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• The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Husband, Animal, Intelligent

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, 1609.

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• Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Thoughtful, Night

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• Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

  Colin Mochrie

  Dying, Fish Tanks, Wells

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

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• If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ignorance, Bridges, Arches

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.72, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

  Alan Paton

  Names, Cry The Beloved Country, Hills

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.

  Joseph Conrad

  Race, Darkness, Age

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.19, eKitap Projesi

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• I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.

  Ron Rash

  Real, Feet, Rocks

  Ron Rash (2009). “Serena”, p.83, Canongate Books

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• The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.

  Ben Okri

  Fate, Destiny, Evil

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• Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Laughter, Land

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Feet, Twists, Plot

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Good Bones and Simple Murders”, p.11, Nan A. Talese

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• They also live
  Who swerve and vanish in the river.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Swerve

  Archibald MacLeish (1985). “Collected Poems, 1917-1982”, p.412, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Too many whites are getting away with drug use... Too many whites are getting away with drug sales... The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Drug Use, Answers

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", October 5, 1995.

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• And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

  Petrarch

  Stars, Ocean, Men

  Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, as translated by James Harvey Robinson (1898), April 26, 1336.

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• George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

  George Foreman

  Mirrors, Miracle, Looks

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• If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Men

  "The Discourse Collection. Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata". Book by John D. Ireland, www.accesstoinsight.org. 1995.

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• When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blood, Born, County

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Powerful, Spring, Rain

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• Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  1802 Of London. 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', Complete poem. (Published 1807).

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• A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Christian, Fashion, War

  "The 1982 invasion of Lebanon". International Socialist Review, Issue 50, www.isreview.org. November–December 2006.

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• Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?

  Rose Fyleman

  Rain, Wings, Water

  Rose Fyleman, “Have You Watched The Fairies?”

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