River Quotes
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Every generation thinks they’re the coolest canoe that’s ever come down the river.
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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
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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.
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River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
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The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.
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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.
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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.
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At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
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She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
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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.
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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.
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You can never step in the same river twice.
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My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.
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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.
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Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
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That river has a long way to go before we're out of this.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
