Rivers Quotes - Page 35

• I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

  Dawna Markova

  Rocks, Rushing, Needs

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.16, Conari Press

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• I'd like to refocus everyone's attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped s- from their Porta-Potties into the river. That's a f-ing scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so's plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I'd feel better about our future.

  Olivia Wilde

  Cheating, Feel Better, Doctors

  "Olivia Wilde Knows What A Real Scandal Is" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

  Emile Hirsch

  Rocks, Work Out, Able

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• In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

  Edwin Newman

  America, Decades, Boiling

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• I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.

  Chris Farley

  Vans, Saturday Night Live

  "Fictional character: Matt Foley". TV Series "Saturday Night Live" ("Christina Applegate/Midnight Oil", 1993), www.imdb.com. (1975 - ).

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• A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

  Sam Trammell

  Beautiful, Running, Virginia

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• One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting for one of my dealers to come up from Fall River, because if I didn't get my stuff I was too sick to even go through the pre-game layup line, never mind actually play in the game.

  Chris Herren

  Fall, Player, Night

  Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds (2011). “Basketball Junkie: A Memoir”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

  Alastair Humphreys

  Country, Stars, Sleep

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• Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Prisoner, Overflow

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• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
  Sailed off in a wooden shoe, -
  Sailed on a river of crystal light
  Into a sea of dew.

  Eugene Field

  Night, Light, Sea

  "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" l. 1 (1889)

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• That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. 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. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture.

  Rosita Forbes

  Lying, Adventure, Journey

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• On a horse there is a perfect position of balance where he doesn't feel like he's pushing you along with him or dragging you along with him. It's like two converging currents in a river, where those currents converge, there is a point where there is no movement, no energy; and that's what you're thinking when you're on the back of a horse.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Thinking, Two

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• I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before

  Heraclitus

  Believe, Ocean, Land

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• Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.

  Ron Kind

  Years, Needs, Locks

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• Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.

  Mao Zedong

  Beautiful, Flower, Fall

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• Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Change, Healing

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• It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Spring, Gold, Fertility

  Writing about Manchester in 'Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande de 1835' 2 July

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• ...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.

  John D. Voelker

  Lakes, Average, Sea

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• Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

  Joe Brooks

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

  Bill Barich

  Art, Lakes, Sea

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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Lakes

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.

  Theodore Gordon

  Past, Sea, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

  Aldo Leopold

  Hunting, Wind, Fishing

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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