Rivers Quotes - Page 22

• The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.

  Carole Maso

  Art, Voice, Moved

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• Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Fishing, Excuse, Angling

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• Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there.

  Jack Finney

  Past, Curves, People

  Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.

  Elizabeth Cunningham

  Powerful, Rain, Book

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• Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin.

  Pocahontas

  Past, Eagles, Wind

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• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  Berton Braley

  Jobs, Best Job, Worry

  Berton Braley, “Opportunity”

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• Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Fountain, Regeneration, Sanctification

  "Divine Healing of the Body". Book by J. Sidlow Baxter, p. 287, 1979.

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• In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Swim, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.45, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Einstein said that time is like a river, it flows in bends.
  If we could only step back around the turns,
  we could travel in either direction.
  I'm sure it's possible. When I die,
  I'm going right back to the 1830s.
  I'm not even afraid of dying.
  I think it must be quite exciting.

  Tasha Tudor

  Thinking, Dying, Flow

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• Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Biblical, Views, Baptism

  Alister E. McGrath (2007). “Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution : a History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-first”, SPCK Publishing

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• A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Sunset, Sight

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• People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

  Saint Augustine

  Stars, Sea, People

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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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• It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heart, Acceptance, Technology

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• She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her grey eyes flickered. Despite being beat-up, sooty, and dressed like a homeless person, she looked great to Percy. So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Light, Hair

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• When you hear the splash Of the water drops that fall Into the stone bowl You will feel that all the dust Of your mind is washed away.

  Sen no Rikyu

  Fall, Rain, Dust

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• My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will be harsh and exacting towards them. But because you want others to like you, you will always attempt to hide your weaknesses from others. Let me strip away your masks,so that you may know who you really are.And when this truth sets you free,then shall you be free to genuinely love. Before this occurs,your love will be offered by the flask,not by the torrents of a river.

  Bo Sanchez

  Broken Heart, Children, Love Is

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• The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.

  Clarence H. Burns

  Powerful, Men, Forget

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• The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Baghdad

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• Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps
  Followed each other till a dreary moor
  Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top
  Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge,
  I overlooked the bed of Windermere,
  Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, July, Bed

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.492

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• We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Technology, Talking, Together

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• Talk not of the river or lake To those who have looked on the sea.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Niece, Sea, Lakes

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

  Euripides

  Women, Fire, Sea

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• 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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