Quotes with river

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  • Cordell Hull Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
    Cordell Hull
    American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 (1871 - 1955)
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  • J. B. Priestley Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bruce Springsteen 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.
    Working On A Dream (2009) Outlaw Pete
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Nikita Khrushchev Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Soviet statesman (1894 - 1971)
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  • Barten Holyday River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
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  • Socrates See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Edward de Bono Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
    Edward de Bono
    Maltese physician, psychologist, philosopher, author and inventor (1933 - )
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  • Frederick Frieseke Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
    Frederick Frieseke
    American-born French painter (1874 - 1939)
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  • H. Ross Perot The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Billy Gibbons The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bill Buford 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.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Edward Dahlberg 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.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Abraham Cowley Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea, Which open all their pores to thee, Like a clear river thou dost glide, And with they living stream through the close channel slide.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Carol P. Christ Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Jorge Luis Borges Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • Edward F. Halifax True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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