Rivers Quotes - Page 20

• Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there's a storm coming!
  Party On!
  A flash flood swept away all our gear and we're twenty miles from the trailhead!
  Party On!
  My femur bone's sticking through my skin and I've gotta cross that river!
  Party On!

  Cody Lundin

  Party, Survival, Storm

  Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Water

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• Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Girlfriend, Husband

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• You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Loneliness, Dark, Other Worlds

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• The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Passion

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• We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Inspirational, God

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• THE HOT (AND SERIOUSLY COOL) ENERGY that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of FELA! feels as if it could stretch easily to the borders of Manhattan and then across a river or two. There should be dancing in the streets!

  Ben Brantley

  Character, Two, Dancing

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• The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

  Billy Gibbons

  Sea, Long, Musical

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• There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
  There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it.
  There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!

  Kabir

  Sky, Rope, Earth

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• It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came to me. I wrote [“Moon River”] in half an hour.

  Henry Mancini

  Moon, Night, Long

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• The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Blessing

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being".

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• As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.

  Ron Kind

  Home, Long, Historical

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• I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

  James Cameron

  Fall, People, Water

  "Filmmaker, Inventor and Explorer". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 1999.

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• Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Feet, Depth

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• But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

  Albert Camus

  Talking, Long, People

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

  A. A. Milne

  Digging A Hole, Giving, Tree

  A. A. Milne (2003). “A Smackerel of Pooh: Ten Favorite Stories and Poems”, Dutton Juvenile

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• The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  New York, Book, Writing

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• Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.

  Thomas McGuane

  Essence, Way, Doe

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• An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

  Thomas McGuane

  Sea, Fishing, Lakes

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.98, Vintage

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• Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

  Thomas McGuane

  Teaching, Sea, Fishing

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.15, Vintage

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• Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Dangerous, Careless, Stills

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Revenge, Rain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.616, Library of Alexandria

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• There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Team, Guy, Storm

  "Lone Survivor". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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  There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Motivational, Military, Fighting

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