Quotes About River
Clear waters drift through the immensity of a tall forest. In front of me a huge river mouth receives the long wind. Deep ripples hold white sand and white fish swimming as in a void. I sprawl on a big rock, billows nourishing my humble body. I gargle with water and wash my feet. A fisherman pauses out on the surf. So many fish long for bait. I look only to the east with its lotus leaves.
~ Wang Wei
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I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.
~ Warren Ellis
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Hindu" is not a native word but comes from a word for the "river" (sindhu) that Herodotus (in the fifth century BCE28), the Persians (in the fourth century BCE), and the Arabs (after the eighth century CE29) used to refer to everyone who lived beyond the great river of the northwest of the subcontinent, still known locally as the Sindhu and in Europe as the Indus.
~ Wendy Doniger
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The fish is an ancient symbol of liminal consciousness in India: "As a great fish goes along both banks of a river, both the near side and the far side, just so this person [the dreamer] goes along both of these conditions, the condition of sleeping and the condition of waking.
~ Wendy Doniger
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Egypt has been called the Gift of the Nile. Once every year the river overflows its banks, depositing a layer of rich alluvial soil on the parched ground. Then it recedes and soon the whole countryside, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with Egyptologists.
~ Will Cuppy
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Watch a mother with her baby— and care for the world with the totality of that love. Watch the river . . . the way it flows and effortlessly passes over the little impediments that get in its way. That is the way to walk through life, unencumbered by the small challenges that happen every day.
~ Daniel Levin
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O grande desejo do rio é ser rio. Ele não quer ser outra coisa. E ele só não poderá sê-lo se abandonar sua verdadeira vocação.
~ Daniel Munduruku
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O grande desejo do rio é ser rio. Ele não quer ser outra coisa. E ele só não poderá sê-lo se abandonar sua verdadeira vocação. Acontecerá com ele o que acontece com todos os que, homens ou mulheres, abandonam sua missão: ficará doente, podre, fedorento. Água parada cria lodo, e a vida vai embora. Ninguém quer tomar banho em um rio com água parada, pois sabe que ali não há alegria. Ali estará um ser que desistiu.
~ Daniel Munduruku
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I throw out love like an anchor and wait where the long house lights of strangers tickle the river's back … Isn't it right to drag the rivers for the bodies not even the nets could catch? I won't lie, I want you to lie with me on the tumbling surface of love. from "Sailing the Back River
~ Dave Smith
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We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.
~ David Almond
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fear of his little sister's safety. "Don't go too near the water!" Ruby stood up. She was, in fact, standing right by the water. In quite a lot of mud. "I'm just trying to catch— Oh!" she said. She'd been about to say – and this may be obvious – "Spock". She'd been leaning over the river, trying to catch Spock.
~ David Baddiel
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The Dordogne Valley is one long smorgasbord.
~ James Clarke
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What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.
~ James Dickey
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The river and everything I remembered about it became a possession to me, a personal, private possession, as nothing else in my life ever had. Now it ran nowhere but in my head, but there it ran as though immortally. I could feel it -- I can feel it -- on different places on my body.... In me it still is, and will be until I die, green, rocky, deep, fast, slow, and beautiful beyond reality.
~ James Dickey
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You do know that the West Bank means the West Bank of the Jordan River, don't you?
~ James Martin
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A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
~ James Schuyler
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All night a door floated down the river. It tried to remember little incidents of pleasure from its former life, like the time the lovers leaned against it kissing for hours and whispering those famous words. Later, there were harsh words and a shoe was thrown and a door was slammed. From "The Wrong Way Home
~ James Tate
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
~ Dorothy Allison
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What intelligent remedy, like jumping in the river, do you suggest if we find this man Lymond irreconcilably dreadful?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
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Sunlight played along the River Cam. People in punts happily shouted at each other to fuck off. Thin natural scientists who had spent months locked away in their rooms growing white and fishlike, emerged blinking into the light. Couples walking along the bank got so excited about the general wonderfulness of it all that they had to pop inside for an hour.
~ Douglas Adams
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Sunlight played along the River Cam. People in punts happily shouted at each other to fuck off.
~ Douglas Adams
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He dreamed at one point in his slumbers of New York. In his dreams he was walking late at night along the East Side, beside the river which had become so extravagantly polluted that new life forms were now emerging from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting rights.
~ Douglas Adams
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Rüyas?nda, gecenin geç bir saatinde DoÄŸu Yakas?ndaki nehrin k?y?s?nda yürüyordu ve nehir öyle acayip kirlenmiÅŸti ki, art?k suyun içinde bir sürü yeni canl? türü kendiliÄŸinden ortaya ç?k?yor, kendileri için devlet yard?m? ve oy hakk? talep ediyorlard?.
~ Douglas Adams
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He dreamed at one point in his slumbers of New York. In his dream he was walking late at night along the East Side, beside the river which had become so extravagantly polluted that new lifeforms were now emerging from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting rights.
~ Douglas Adams
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