Streams Quotes - Page 25

• To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Stupid, Rain, Rivers

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• As you become more rooted inside -- as you drink from this silent stream of life that runs beneath the surface of everything -- as you live from that depth of your own being more and more, then you’ll be able to rise taller and stronger in this world; more than you may have ever thought possible.

  Derek Rydall

  Running, Stronger, Depth

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• How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.

  Peter Heller

  Running, Lying, Water

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.263, Vintage

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• I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

  Aaron Koblin

  Real, Data, Ideas

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• The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Rivers, Bed, Violent

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.276, Taylor & Francis

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• The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Oil, Sides

  Jonathan Swift, “A Description Of A City Shower”

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• the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. / thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. / wings brush against flowers. / fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.

  Hans Arp

  Spring, Flower, Fall

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• Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jesus, Fall, Home

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.37

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• Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Dream, Dark

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “The Humorous Verse of Lewis Carroll”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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• The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.

  John Armstrong

  Moving, Blood, Water

  John Armstrong (1744). “The Art of Preserving Health: a Poem. Price Four Shillings Sewed”, p.26

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• There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.

  Washington Irving

  Weed, Roots, Tree

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.133, e-artnow

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• And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits; Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream The Spirit he loves remains; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Rain, Ocean

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.259

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• So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.

  William Carlos Williams

  Men, Fields, Different

  William Carlos Williams (1997). “Early Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.

  Matthew Arnold

  Strong, Thinking, Light

  Matthew Arnold (1892). “St. Paul and Protestantism: With Other Essays”

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• Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

  Matthew Arnold

  Weed, Light, Wind

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 35

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• Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

  Bob Goff

  Moving, Rivers, Plans

  Twitter post from Mar 08, 2015

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• Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Effort, Groups

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• O lovely river of Yvette!
  O darling river! like a bride,
  Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette
  Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide.
  O lovely river Yvette!
  O darling stream! on balanced wings
  The wood-birds sang the chansonnette
  That here a wandering poet sings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wings, Rivers, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883). “Longfellow's Poetical Works: With 83 Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., and Other Artists”

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• Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream.
  [Lat., Flere licet certe: flendo diffundimus iram:
  Perque sinum lacrimae, fluminis instar enim.]

  Ovid

  Heart, Wrath, Tears

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• Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.

  Kanye West

  Oxford, Giving, Quiet

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• From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Blood, Discovery, Long

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• Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

  Helen Waddell

  Men, Sick, Illness

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hate, Mean, Self

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1984). “Krishnamurti's notebook”, Harper San Francisco

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• The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Slang

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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