Rivers Quotes — Page 34

Poet, Playwright

“I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.”

House Cities Rivers

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Rachel Carson

Biologist, Conservationist, Author

“In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.”

Past Ocean Rivers

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.”

Way Cities

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.”

Rivers Environmental

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Tanith Lee

Author

“Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.”

Wine Rivers Rose

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Yoko Ono

Artist, Musician, Activist

“We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.”

Water Ocean Rivers

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Vash Young

Musician

“There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.”

Rivers Helpful Loud

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Victor Hugo

Novelist, Poet

“I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.”

Intelligent Rivers Shore

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.”

Change Rivers Gold

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Vikram Seth

Poet, Novelist

“Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.”

Long Race Rivers

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.”

Sleep Rivers Winter

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Virginia Woolf

Novelist

“O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!”

Blessed Rivers Childhood

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