Rivers Quotes
1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors
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Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.
— Unknown Author
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The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?
— Mother Meera
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God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that…
— Andrew Peterson
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I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in…
— Alice Oswald
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Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship.…
— Ruskin Bond
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I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the…
— Unknown Author
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The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred…
— Unknown Author
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It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great…
— Brenda Peterson
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To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great…
— Colleen Houck
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My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there…
— Larry Levis
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We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of…
— Simon Van Booy
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It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When…
— James Richardson
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God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful days of spring. What is…
— Martin Prechtel
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Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic.…
— Amy Gerstler
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The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion
— Vinnie Paz
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Luckily, though, there are still a few guys around who will look you straight in the eye and say, eloquently and to the point, ‘It’s…
— John Gierach
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I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all.…
— Art Blakey
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Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love…
— Henry David Thoreau
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What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.
— Pocahontas
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No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
— Heraclitus
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a…
— Margaret Atwood
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