Rivers Quotes
1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors
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He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear…
— Rick Riordan
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She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her…
— Rick Riordan
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I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I will think of you,…
— Cassandra Clare
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True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as…
— Khalil Gibran
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Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me…
— J D Salinger
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As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you…
— Paulo Coelho
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I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love…
— Paulo Coelho
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I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a…
— Paulo Coelho
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The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of…
— Thomas Berry
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As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to…
— Henri Nouwen
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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
— Horace
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Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
— Justin Timberlake
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You cannot step into the same river twice.
— Heraclitus
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The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it…
— Paulo Coelho
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Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal…
— Eliot Coleman
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The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in…
— Manmohan Acharya
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This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your…
— Anthony de Mello
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There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.
— Clement of Alexandria
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For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To…
— Pema Chodron
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When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.
— Kurt Lewin
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