Streams Quotes - Page 35

• The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Sound, Growing

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.85

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• The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.

  Winston Churchill

  Cutting, Race, Years

  Winston Churchill's addree as Home Secretary to Prime Minister Asquith on compulsory sterilization of 'the feeble-minded and insane', as quoted in "'Race', Sport and British Society" edited by Ben Carrington and Ian Mcdonald, 2001.

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• Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Dream, Essence, Custodians

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Life Changing, Sky

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Self, Individual, Evolve

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• A mighty stream of tendency.

  William Hazlitt

  Evolution, Tendencies

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.86

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• Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

  Julie Klausner

  Wings, Dumb, Consciousness

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• Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.

  Bill Vaughan

  Gratitude, Spring, Flower

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• To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Powerful, America, Credit

  "One year out: Obama's fall". www.jewishworldreview.com. January 15, 2010.

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• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  1819 'The Cloud'.

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• The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Spring, Humanity, Mountain

  Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Du ntzer, Percy Pinkerton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1902). “The Maid of Oreleans; The Bride of Messina; Wilhelm Tell; Demetrius; The Piccolomini; The Death of Wallenstein; Wallenstein's Camp”

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• To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Purpose, Source

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• Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Style, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.

  David Gelernter

  Children, School, Parent

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.

  Robert Montgomery

  Soul, Levels, Pants

  Robert Montgomery (1841). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: With Other Poems”, p.42

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• The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but rather the times which are measured or determined by arbitrarily named stellar positions. Time thus proves to be a stream of energy filled with qualities and not, as our philosophy would have it, an abstract concept or precondition of knowledge.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Philosophy, Astrology

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.79, Psychology Press

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• Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Ignorance, Law, Practice

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for
  we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.

  Donald Kuspit

  Reflection, Self, Steps

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• The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream.

  Kekla Magoon

  Lying, Rocks, Rivers

  Kekla Magoon (2009). “The Rock and the River”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Aomori Water is a sound collage piece made in 1998, in Aomori Japan. I was in a residency with other artists. A Japanese sculptor was making a round house and wanted a sound piece to play in it. I recorded some very gentle waves lapping the beach, for the first part. And a very small mountain stream, flowing, for the second part. I layered 8 tracks. This was the first work that I did in ProTools.

  Phill Niblock

  Beach, Artist, Japan

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• Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are two currents, one current is composed of North Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams and the other is composed of South Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams, and they are are running one stream against the other stream in whirling, screwlike fashion, and with high speed.

  Edward Leedskalnin

  Running, Fashion, Expression

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• The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

  Matthew Henry

  Running, Shallow, Sabbath

  Matthew Henry (1850*). “The Miscellaneous Writings of the Revd. Matthew Henry: Consisting of Sermons, Tracts and Biographical Sketches of Eminent Christians and Ministers. To which is Added the Sermon Preached on the Author's Death”, p.199

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• Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

  Euripides

  Sacrifice, Blood, Cures

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• Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to the music of streams. There is indeed a music in streams, but it is not for the hurried. It has to be loitered by and imagined. Or imagined toward, for it is hardly for men at all. Nature has a patient ear. To her the slowest funeral march sounds like a jig. She is satisfied to have the notes drawn out to the lengths of days or weeks or months. Small variations are acceptable to her, modulations as leisurely as the opening of a flower.

  Wendell Berry

  Flower, Men, Funeral

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.19, Counterpoint

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• When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Play, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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