Rivers Quotes - Page 27

• The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

  Gene Brown

  Bridges, Crosses

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• Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

  Merle Shain

  Laughing, Balance, Life Is Like

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• It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.

  Michal Lapaj

  Ideas, Soul, Sound

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• The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh. October 1935

  Mao Zedong

  Happiness, Laughter, Army

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient association with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air.

  David Abram

  Air, Wind, Voice

  David Abram (1996). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World”, Pantheon

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• The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered.

  Daran Norris

  Distance, Creating, Long

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• We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all pass by. Christian! So does our life. . .I was an infant, and that time has gone. I was an adolescent, and that too has passed. I was a young man, and that too is far behind me. The strong and mature man that I was is no more. My hair turns white, I succumb to age, but that too passes; I approach the end and will go the way of all flesh. I was born in order to die. I die that I may live. Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom!

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Christian, Spiritual, Strong

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• River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy,
  Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home,
  It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago
  Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Sweet, Home

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• When it seems like the night will last forever,
  And there's nothing left to do but count the years,
  When the strings of my harp to sever,
  And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears...
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And dream me a dream of my own,
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And sing me a song of my own.

  Robert Hunter

  Dream, Song, Fall

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• Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Rain, School

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• I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

  Simon McBurney

  Teacher, Children, Play

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• We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them

  Sterling W Sill

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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• The rocks are where they are- and this is their will. The rivers flow- and this is their will. The birds fly- this is their will. Human beings talk- this is their will. The seasons change, heaven sends down rain or snow, the earth occasionally shakes, the waves roll, the stars shine- each of them follows its own will. To be is to will and so is to become.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Stars, Rain, Rocks

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• My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

  Albert Finney

  Girlfriend, Nice, Two

  Interview with Caffeinated Clint, moviehole.net. December 3, 2003.

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• Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

  Pat Buchanan

  Agency, Environmental, Needs

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• Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

  Doris Lessing

  Literature, Oblivion, Our Thoughts

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Lovers end, love continues. It is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Mean, Love Is

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• Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jail, People, Hudson River

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• Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.

  Mouni Sadhu

  Time, World, Remains

  Mouni Sadhu (2005). “Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study”, p.50, Karnac Books

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• [Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Flower

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• Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Passing, Endless

  Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.199, Grove Press

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• Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

  Prince Philip

  People, Classic

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• Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

  Ashanti

  Stupidity, Crocodiles, Lumps

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• High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.

  Edmund Muskie

  Dream, Water, Political

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• Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.

  John Betjeman

  House, Church, Towers

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