Rivers Quotes - Page 40

• Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Land

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• When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Sleep

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• Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.

  Harvey Broome

  War, America, Vastness

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• Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we'll reunite for all eternity.

  Avril Lavigne

  Friendship, Sea, Two

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• If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

  Sarah McLachlan

  Regret, Sadness, Confession

  Song: Black, Album: Solace

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• My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

  Tim Cahill

  Home, Vacation, Ideas

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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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• There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.

  Eric Burdon

  Running, Dry, Feels

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• I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

  Patrick Duffy

  Love Is, Cooking, Salmon

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• If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

  Jane Birkin

  Home, Elderly, Cities

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• In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

  Kathleen Battle

  Escaping, Heaven, Jordan

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• The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

  George Catlin

  Character, Water, Different

  George Catlin (2012). “Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy, but it's nice. And when she gets mad, you best leave her alone, cause she'll rage like a river then she'll beg you to forgive her.

  Garth Brooks

  Relationship, Crazy, Nice

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• Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

  Patti Smith

  Egotism

  Song: Pissing in a River, Album: Radio Ethiopia

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• And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Trust, Kings, Dust

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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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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• As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

  Loren Eiseley

  Nature, Men, Water

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.20, Vintage

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• Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.

  Steve Winwood

  Inspirational, Laughter, Rolling

  Song: The Finer Things, Album: Back in the High Life

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• Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Spring, Science, Past

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• A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

  Christiane Northrup

  Forgiveness, Grudge, Flowing River

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• Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

  Gram Parsons

  Song, Religious, Jesus

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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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• I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River'.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Two, Political, Challenges

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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• It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Fall, Thinking, Poison

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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