Streams Quotes
765 quotes by 570 authors
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The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And…
— Alice Cary
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Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If…
— Thomas Merton
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To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is…
— James Dickey
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Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream...
— Mooji
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The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.
— Ebenezer Elliott
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When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,…
— Aaron Hill
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There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be…
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide.…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they…
— Samuel Garth
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But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our…
— John Muir
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What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a…
— Francis of Assisi
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The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there…
— John Muir
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These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,…
— Rachel Carson
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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the…
— Rachel Carson
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Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all…
— John Muir
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For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
— Matthew Arnold
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A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Who Wrote These Streams Quotes
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