Rivers Quotes - Page 28

• Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

  Jimmy Cannon

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from the southwestern part of the country. The River Journey exhibit transports visitors from the Appalachian highlands through ponds, rivers and swamps, all the way to the seacoast. The recently added Ocean Journey exhibit allows visitors to sample a variety of saltwater environments.

  John Grant

  Country, Ocean, Unique

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• The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

  Maurice Hinchey

  Country, Development, Importance

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• Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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• If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

  James Altucher

  Past, Rocks, Way

  "How to Break All The Rules and Get Everything You Want" by James Altucher, jamesaltucher.com.

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• When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

  Henry Williamson

  Country, Heart, Pride

  Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

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• The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Running, Awkward, Cadence

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.82, Macmillan

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• However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

  Ousmane Sembene

  Long, Tree, Trunks

  Ousmane Sembène (1983). “Xala”, Lawrence Hill Books

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• I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.

  Laura Restrepo

  Sadness, Water, Heaven

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• Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

  Niall Williams

  Over You, Ears

  Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.181, A&C Black

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• The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.

  Lisa Mangum

  Space, Mind, Energy

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• Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Teacher, Teaching, Inspiration

  "Thoughts and Aphorisms". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1913.

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• The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Beautiful, Stones, Ends

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• By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, Whole

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• Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.

  Joachim du Bellay

  Rome, Gone, Towns

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• The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

  Charles Kingsley

  Country, Flower, Men

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins another civilisation.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Bed, Dry, Paddy

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• As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.

  Alexander Lowen

  Ocean, Animal, Space

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• Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

  Minette Walters

  Fall, White, Snow

  Minette Walters (2010). “The Ice House”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

  Mike Rowe

  San Francisco, Guy, Cockroaches

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• It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous scenery is spectacular, but so in her own way is Miss Monroe.

  Bosley Crowther

  Missing, Way, Toss

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• The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?

  Mother Meera

  Wind, Sea, Why Not

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• God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that bear truth that outlasts the songs themselves. If I did this in hopes of thunderous applause and piles of cash, I would have quit years ago. But there are moments on the stage when I sense something magical, a connection with the band and the audience, when our stories intersect and suddenly we’re wading in an ancient river. Suddenly the song is secondary to the greater story being told through each of us.

  Andrew Peterson

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river.

  Alice Oswald

  Hands, Order, Giving

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