Rivers Quotes - Page 38

• If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Running, Fear, Stronger

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• In a life properly lived, you're a river.

  Jim Harrison

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What if River Phoenix had lived?

  Drew McWeeny

  Phoenix, What If, Ifs

  "What if River Phoenix had lived?" by Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 19, 2013.

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• Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions.

  Shoma Morita

  Pain, Emotional, Self

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• The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Government, Giants, Human Potential

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2017

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• When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Giving, Water, Enemy

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• The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I'm not a fan of the cowboys.

  Merle Haggard

  Running, Cowboy, Order

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• The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
  Long night clear evening--what are they for?

  Ueda Akinari

  Moon, Night, Wind

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• I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.293, Diderot Publishing

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• This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.

  Freya Stark

  Lying, Imagination, Goal

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

  Robert Smithson

  Erosion, Ideas, Brain

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell from note to note as a brook from rock to rock. I did not hear the strains after they had issued from the flute, but before they were breathed into it, for the original strain precedes the sound by as much as the echo follows after, and the rest is the perquisite of the rocks and trees and beasts. Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts, the very undertow of our life's stream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Night, Echoes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

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• Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

  Norman Chad

  Stories, Botox, Beats

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• The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

  Kent Hovind

  Colorado River, Form, Canyons

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• America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

  Charles Kuralt

  America, Stories, Pages

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• Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows as a river, then merges with the sea, the goes up again as a cloud.

  Yasmin

  Rain, Fall, Clouds

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• I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don't go out to clubs and partying. I stay at home and watch the river flow.

  George Harrison

  Party, Flower, Home

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• Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

  Norm Dicks

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

  Cesar Pelli

  Ambitious, Limits, Excitement

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• The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yset absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Simple, Meditation

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• Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

  Gladys Taber

  Christmas, Xmas, Healing

  "Still Cove Journal". Book by Gladys Tabor, 1981.

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• Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Missing, Flow

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• As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Uplifting, Water, Meditation

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• Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Mind, Flow

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