River Quotes
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An ellipse of pale rose sand lines the inside of a river bend of such beauty, you could set yourself on fire with the rapture of that curve. In it lies a kind of music in stone that might cure all emptiness.
Ellen Meloy
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Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.
Gautama Buddha
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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 sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another’s river views.
John Cheever
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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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Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne
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Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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.
Margaret Mitchell
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People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
Michael Jackson
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In a swollen river the current is unequal, being much stronger in some places than in others; hence the great danger.
Emile Gaboriau
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All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.
William Cowper Prime
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Love is a river. Drink from it.
Rumi
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Sometimes a river runs on the surface, and sometimes it runs underground, but always it is present. Even if you do not see it, you can feel it.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.
John Sandford
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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Don't cross the river if you can't swim the tide.
Don't try denyin' livin' on the other side.
All your life
You were on your own.
America
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All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
Ethel Lynn Beers
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
Elizabeth Lesser
