Rivers Quotes - Page 34

• I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

  Perry Como

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

  Mark Twain

  Engineering, Skills, Way

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• Peace is Letting Go--Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Letting Go, Silence, Tree

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1995). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Penguin Books

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• Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.

  Oswald Chambers

  Eye, Focus, Matter

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

  Anatole France

  Climbing, Bridges, Mountain

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• The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

  Paula Cole

  Music, Destiny, Shy

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• The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

  Heraclitus

  Feet, Giving, Water

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.6, Penguin

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• The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

  Harry Hooton

  Nature, Moving, Men

  Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”

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• Every year everything
  I have ever learned
  in my lifetime
  leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side
  is salvation

  Mary Oliver

  Loss, Fire, Years

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Heaven, Chinese, Fancy

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories”, p.16, tredition

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• The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Soul, Energy, Who We Are

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• Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset.
  Give it time. That is all that may be required. Just give it time. Do not try to push the river. The cycles of life present themselves, play themselves out, and make smooth every passage and terrain.
  Try not to get caught up in your story of the moment. Look, rather, to the Long Story. Therein will be found your peace. The cycles will redeem this moment, if you let them, and even this shall pass.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Morning, Sunset, Cycle Of Life

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 26, 2015

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• I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.

  Aldo Leopold

  Eye, Views, Forever

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.51, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Distance, Ocean, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1794, Manonmani Publishers

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• The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.

  Rosita Forbes

  Travel, Journey, Track

  Rosita Forbes (1935). “From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia”

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• And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Magic, Income, Saving

  "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.

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• I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.

  Diana Krall

  Song, Might, Way

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• Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

  Meredith Willson

  Music, Home, Men

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• In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.

  Johannes Brahms

  Music, Water, Noble

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• How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, Land, Sky

  Song: Unforgivable Youth, 2012

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• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Artist, Men, Lakes

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

  Herbert Hoover

  Prayer, Men, Lakes

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

  Maya Angelou

  Tree, Today, Lasts

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer”, p.8, Random House

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• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon

  Jack Nicklaus

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Kissing, Journey

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