Rivers Quotes - Page 24

• Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Quality, Bad Qualities, Causes

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• I was a heavy heart to carry
  My beloved was weighed down
  My arms around his neck
  My fingers laced to crown.
  I was a heavy heart to carry
  My feet dragged across ground
  And he took me to the river
  Where he slowly let me drown
  My love has concrete feet
  My love's an iron ball
  Wrapped around your ankles
  Over the waterfall

  Florence Welch

  Heart, Iron, Feet

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• There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

  Peter Garrett

  Impact, Land, Agriculture

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

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• We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 years we have clear-cut the forests, fished rivers and oceans to the brink of extinction and siphoned oil from the earth as if it possessed an infinite supply. We've sold off our planet's natural capital and called it income. And now the earth, like the economy, is stripped.

  Kalle Lasn

  Ocean, Cutting, Past

  "Hey President Obama". Adbusters, March 24, 2009.

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• We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

  Jonis Agee

  Running, Water, Needs

  Jonis Agee (1991). “Sweet eyes”, Crown Pub

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• The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.

  William Henry Ashley

  Beautiful, Yellowstone, Navigate

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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

  William Christopher Handy

  Home, Wind, Snakes

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

  William Christopher Handy

  Tennessee, Boat

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.

  Myrtle Reed

  Summer, Rocks, Discovery

  Myrtle Reed (2017). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.58, Lindhardt og Ringhof

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• The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.

  Christopher Columbus

  Beautiful, Kindness, Flower

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• Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Lying, Eye

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 75

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• Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of Mother Nature. Learn from the wise, from the sacred books, but do not forget that every mountain, river, plant or tree also has something to teach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Mother, Book

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• Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth!
  Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
  Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!
  Smile, for your lover comes!

  Walt Whitman

  Sunset, Dark, Moon

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.42, Routledge

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• Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

  Carol P. Christ

  Christian, Isis, Years

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• What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

  Laozi

  Sea, Taoism, World

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• The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

  Laozi

  Kings, Lying, Sea

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• Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.

  Laozi

  Winter, Taoism, Cautious

  Laozi (2007). “Daodejing: The New, Highly Readable Translation of the Life-Changing Ancient Scripture Formerly Known as the Tao Te Ching”, p.55, Open Court

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• A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

  Laozi

  Country, Taoism, Female

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• 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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• Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.

  George Bird Grinnell

  Lying, Ocean, Sea

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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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• A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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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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