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Quotes About River

Todo o rio divide o planeta ao meio.
~ Mia Couto
Así pues, ahora avanzamos los dos: el río Lideia con su nombre de ave, y yo, Mariamar, con nombre de agua. Viajo contra el destino, pero a favor de la corriente.
~ Mia Couto
Arcángel Baleiro, el cazador. Ese hombre me cazó hace tiempo. Desde entonces nunca más he tenido descanso. Huir de un amor es la manera más perfecta de obedecerlo. Cuanto más dueña de mí misma, más esclava de ese amor. No hay río en este mundo que me libre de esa trampa.
~ Mia Couto
A gente vai chegando à morte como um rio que desencorpa no mar: uma parte está nascendo e, simultânea, a outra já se assombra no sem-fim.
~ Mia Couto
Smith glanced across the river. "But it's intolerable just letting it run on like this. We've got to stop it!" "That is just what the apostles said. They could not understand why the Lord had to die.
~ Unknown
His awe of the mountains grew in the days that followed, as the Yellowstone River led him nearer and nearer. Their great mass was a marker, a benchmark fixed against time itself. Others might feel disquiet at the notion of something so much larger than themselves. But for Glass, there was a sense of sacrament that flowed from the mountains like a font, an immortality that made his quotidian pains seem inconsequential
~ Michael Punke
Then the vulture swooped down and away, racing the LeTort spring to the Conodoguinet Creek from there to the Susquehanna river and from there to the sea. Same river my ancestors took to reach the places where they hunted and farmed and buried their dead.
~ Unknown
Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.
~ Unknown
Nocturno el rio de las horas fluye desde su manatial que es el manana eterno ... [Nocturnal the river of hours flows/from its source, the eternal tomorrow ... ]
~ Miguel de Unamuno
En su maldad, el hombre es más cruel y más endurecido que el cocodrilo del río y corazón es más duro que la piedra
~ Mika Waltari
He who once drunk of Nile water will forever yearn to be by the Nile again.
~ Mika Waltari
There is an old Congo saying that if one watches the Congo River long enough, the bodies of one's enemies will eventually go floating by. Kasavubu had been watching the Congo River as President for the last five years, during which time four Prime Ministers had gone floating by.
~ Unknown
We had been ordered to the Gulf of Guinea to watch the mouth of the great Niger River. Our
~ Mike Rogers
And what remains for us to do, my friends? When life is such a dismal pit, it must be left behind without delay! My friends, let us all go and drown ourselves! Look out of the window, at the river! It beckons us to come!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
There's one thing that troubles me, my friends. It isn't right for us to drown ourselves at night, after supper. People will say we did it because we were drunk. We shall go to bed now and sleep till morning, and at ten o'clock, washed and dressed properly, with proudly lifted heads, we shall walk to the river, so that everybody will see that we drowned ourselves like true philosophers.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Be merciful on account of it, renew the treaties. No river lets itself be hidden, It is good to work for the future.
~ Unknown
A muddy river is a muddy river, whether it's in Bengal or in Baton Rouge.
~ Mitali Perkins
Between us, love the buses at the door the long glass street two years, my death to yours my death upon your lips my face becoming glass strong challenged time making me win immortal the love a mirror of our valley our street our river a deadly glass to hold. Now they are feeding me in to a steel mill furnace O love the stream of glass a stream of living fire.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
Time is the cycles of life in infinity, desires accelerate old age in the subconscious. Time is also in the river of life, it is infinite, but there are limitations not in nature, but in the organisms of living beings. Animals have more natural and philosophical goals in life than humans, since people want everything, while animals and insects want the main thing in the natural processes of the universe.
~ Unknown
SUFISM is not different from the mysticism of all religions. Mysticism comes from Adam (God's Peace upon him). It has assumed different shapes and forms over many centuries, for example, the mysticism of Jesus (God's Peace upon him), of monks, of hermits, and of Muhammed (God's Peace and Blessings upon him). A river passes through many countries and each claims it for its own. But there is only one river.
~ Unknown
Song of Longing Will you come to me now Thee white moon shines on the cornfields Evening falls among the melon rows The orange sun sets on the mountains The river runs sparkling on blue stones And the long reeds bend and sway I will welcome you with sweetgrass and sage Will you come to me now I sing in my heart of your coming I sing in my soul of your coming
~ N. Scott Momaday
Tarsus, a noble city in Cilicia, ten miles inland on the river Cydnus in the southeast corner of modern Turkey
~ Unknown
In 1790, "squatter" appeared in a Pennsylvania newspaper, but written as "squatlers," describing men who inhabited the western borderlands of that state, along the Susquehanna River. They were men who "sit down on river bottoms," pretend to have titles, and chase off anyone who dares to usurp their claims.5
~ Unknown
The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.
~ Nelson Algren