Rivers Quotes - Page 25

• I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

  Kent McCord

  Animal, Air, Land

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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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• When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.

  Gene Hill

  Fall, Divorce, Swimmer

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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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• Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

  Richard Louv

  Reading, Book, Islands

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. There are a lot of religious trends that would have us controlling God, telling us that if we do this that and the other, God will jump through our hoops like a monkey. But this other God, this real God, is awesome and strong, all-encompassing and passionate, and for reasons I will never understand, he wants to father us.

  Donald Miller

  Religious, Strong, Father

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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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• Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a follower, and constantly build the best products possible.

  Robert Noyce

  Ocean, Leader, Swim

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• The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Beautiful, Confused, Flower

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 317, 1895.

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• There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

  Edgar Winter

  Girl, Song, Titles

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• The moon twangs its silver strings;
  The river swoons into town;
  The wind beds down in the pines,
  Covers itself with stars.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Stars, Moon, Wind

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• Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy,
  since they cannot change their places,
  are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them;
  and as some reach a great age, they become, as it were, historical monuments,
  and like ourselves they have a life, growing and passing away,
  --not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and rivers.
  One sees them passing through various stages,
  and at last step by step approaching death,
  which makes them look still more like ourselves.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Beautiful, Tree, Historical

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• Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Men, Lakes

  "The Compleat Angler".

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• I have come to a still, but not a deep center,
  A point outside the glittering current;
  My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,
  At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains,
  My mind moves in more than one place,
  In a country half-land, half-water.
  I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
  The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
  The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
  What I love is near at hand,
  Always, in earth and air.

  Theodore Roethke

  Country, Moving, Eye

  Theodore Roethke, “The Far Field”

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• I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river [Ozama], and by this sea which is fresh.

  Christopher Columbus

  Believe, Views, Sea

  Journal of the Third Voyage (May - August 1498), 1498.

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• I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Past, House, Mountain

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• Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

  Guru Nanak

  Ocean, Past, Self

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• Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing."

  Mao Zedong

  Past, Wind, Sky

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• . . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

  Laozi

  Truth, Past, Ideas

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• The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.62, Sahitya Akademi

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