- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
River Quotes
Most Famous River Quotes of All Time!
Rivers show up literally and figuratively in this collection, one line plays on the old idiom about being sent away, while another finds joy simply watching fish move through the water. Read more Life quotes on finding meaning in small moments.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot step into the same river twice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The removal of the British after the American Revolution opened the floodgates of paramilitary ranger power. For instance, in 1786, ranger units, including one that included Daniel Boone, attacked a number of friendly Shawnee towns along the Mad River.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myself and some kids on our estate became obsessed with the creation of the ultimate go-kart. This ambition culminated in the creation of a six-man super-cart, which was essentially a plank of wood with four wheels, and a failed attempt to jump a tributary of the River Severn powered only by Rex, our dog.
A training routine built around a hometown sandbank and a heartfelt tribute to a close friend both surface here too. See Great and Long quotes for more.