Streams Quotes
765 quotes by 581 authors
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Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting…
— Wallace Stegner
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He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in…
— Douglas Adams
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If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident.…
— George R. R. Martin
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Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing…
— Ernest Hemingway
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You taste of the cool water that hides deep in a stream. You taste of the night air, soft and scented and mysterious. The taste…
— Katie MacAlister
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We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real…
— Diane Ackerman
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Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal…
— Juliet Marillier
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You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks…
— Khalil Gibran
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The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed…
— Hermann Hesse
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Strider's bedroom "The only thing hanging on the wall that wasn't a weapon was the portrait just over the bed. No. Not true, he thought…
— Gena Showalter
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Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?-- Only…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Andrius turned. His eyes found mine. I'll see you he said. My face didn't wrinkle. I didn't utter a sound. But for the first time…
— Ruta Sepetys
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To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one…
— Aldo Leopold
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In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places…
— Sigrid Undset
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Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Maybe in the morning, sunlight would to turn him back into a statue; then I could take Stone out to the forest where he could…
— Devon Monk
Who Wrote These Streams Quotes
581 authors contributed a total of 765 Streams Quotes, led by these top contributors: