Quotes with river

  • The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
  • Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
  • Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
  • From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
  • You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thornton Wilder It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Milton Friedman Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Buffalo Bill After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bob Edwards 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.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Abraham Cowley Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Blaise Pascal 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?
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Mark Twain Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Francis Bacon Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Dhammapada Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • A. C. Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • George Foreman George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be.'' Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, jack
    I went out for a ride and I never went back.
    Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
    I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.
    The River (1980) Hungry Heart
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Zhuang Zhou I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
    Zhuang Zhou
    Chinese philosopher (369 - 286)
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  • Bruce Dern I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Enoch Powell If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • Cavett Robert If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.
    Cavett Robert
    American businessman and founder of the National Speakers Association (1907 - 1997)
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  • Pat Buchanan Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Love is the river of life in the world.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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