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 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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One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.
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That's exactly how it's supposed to happen. You can't say enough about just having enough eyes on the river.
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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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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
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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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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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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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My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.
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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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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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Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.
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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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You can never step in the same river twice.
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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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The voices of all creatures are in the voices of 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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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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That river has a long way to go before we're out of this.
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Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — Twenty bridges or twenty two — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.
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There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
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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.
