Rivers Quotes - Page 23

• The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'

  Regina Spektor

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

  Kurt Lewin

  Culture, Young, Flowing River

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• Dripping water hollows out a stone

  Ovid

  Water, Environmental, Stones

  'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 4, no. 10, l. 5.

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• A man of wisdom delights in water.

  Confucius

  Men, Water, Delight

  Confucius, Chichung Huang (1997). “The Analects of Confucius”, p.84, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I am haunted by waters.

  Norman Maclean

  Water, Environmental

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Dark, Desire

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

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• It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.

  Jane Goodall

  Success, Giving Up, Inspiration

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• I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have. I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

  Danny Kaye

  Beautiful, Country, Powerful

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• Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

  Saint Augustine

  Nature, Stars, Ocean

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• Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Sea, Giving

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• Go, little book, and wish to all
  Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
  A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
  A house with lawns enclosing it,
  A living river by the door,
  A nightingale in the sycamore!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Flower, Book, Wine

  'Underwoods' (1887) 'Envoy'.

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• Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Blood, Names

  "Wine Buyers Guide".

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• We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

  John Green

  Hipster, Play, Long

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• Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

  Indira Gandhi

  Women, Water, Democracy

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “India: The Speeches and Reminiscences of Indira Gandhi”

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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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• Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.

  Lester R. Brown

  Ice, Sea, Civilization

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• When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Wall, Rocks

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• How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Sea, Proud

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• It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things running right. We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us the illusion that we are in charge. I need to say to myself, they're not needed, hon. Just take in the buggy pleasures. Be kind to the others, grab the fleck of riverweed, notice how beautifully your bug legs scull.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Running, Struggle

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• Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current.

  Coleman Barks

  Inspirational, Moving, Joy

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• There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Dark, Clouds, Heaven

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

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• Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.

  Charles Dickens

  Song, Nature, Air

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.37

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• You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

  Wendell Berry

  Environmental, Affirmation, Plant

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• The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

  Hermann Hesse

  Depth, Taught, Environment

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.80, Om Books International

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