Rivers Quotes - Page 26

• He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Sea, Mind

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Men, Odds

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• Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

  William Bartram

  Nature, December, Grove

  William Bartram (1958). “The Travels of William Bartram”, p.58, University of Georgia Press

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• Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

  Albert Sidney Johnston

  Horse, War, Water

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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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• Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly.

  Pelagius

  Beautiful, Eye, Animal

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• But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

  J. G. Farrell

  Plato, Expression, White

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• Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Lakes, Air

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become, with us, the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same tree

  Robert Sobukwe

  Water, Tree, Branches

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• Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Years, Cities, America

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;
  And spring comes green again to trees and grasses
  Where petals have been shed like tears
  And lonely birds have sung their grief.
  ...After the war-fires of three months,
  One message from home is worth a ton of gold.
  ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin
  To hold the hairpins any more.

  Du Fu

  Country, Lonely, Spring

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Cousin, Brother, Eight

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• I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.

  Keri Hulme

  Beach, Pain, Islands

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.336, LSU Press

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• Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

  Franz Rosenzweig

  Sweet, Lying, Book

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• Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

  Dave Reichert

  Beauty, Country, Landscape

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• Years from now, years and years, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilian brats. Because yes, they must see this, these lights, the river -- I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

  Holly Golightly

  New York, Light, Years

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• Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Across the river I could see the twinkling lights of the town. In a week I would be returning to school, and as always I would be running up the goat path and crossing the bridge to go to church. Sometime in the future I would have to build my own dream out of those things that were so much a part of my childhood.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Running, Dream, Stars

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• God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

  Meister Eckhart

  Dams

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• The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

  George Vancouver

  Ocean, Fall, Sea

  George Vancouver (1798). “A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: And Round Theworld; in which the Coast of North-west America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed”, p.210

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• It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful." She leaned forward and touched his face lightly, the smooth skin over his hard cheekbone, his hair like feathers against the back of her hand. "I saw rivers, boats like flowers, all the colors of the night sky.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Flower, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us. Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you "Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?" - Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent. Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn't. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Thinking, Brotherhood, Together

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• Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Night, Dragons, Events

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• There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in the sea & the stars & the wind, a deep, wild magic that's as old as the world itself. It's in you too, my darling girl, and in me, and in every living creature, be it ever so small. Even the dirt I'm sweeping up now is stardust. In fact, all of us are made from the stuff of stars.

  Kate Forsyth

  Girl, Stars, Flower

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