River Quotes
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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.
Billy Joel
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I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.
Alan Lee
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A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
Gautama Buddha
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
Lao Tzu
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Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe, -
Sailed on a river of crystal light
Into a sea of dew.
Eugene Field
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I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.
Augusto De Luca
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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
Blaise Pascal
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He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.
Hermann Hesse
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My river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.
Elena Ferrante
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Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below.
Ella Leya
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To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
Gautama Buddha
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Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.
Richie Furay
Buffalo Springfield
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My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.
Else Lasker-Schuler
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Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.
Hermann Hesse
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Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.
Gautama Buddha
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I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river.
Craig T. Nelson
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Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.
Ernst Hanfstaengl
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You can never step in the same river twice.
Heraclitus
