Rivers Quotes

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Author, Physician

“America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.”

Past Memories Rivers

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!”

Water Grace Rivers

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.”

Rivers Denial

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Jean Cocteau

Poet, Novelist, Playwright

“The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.”

Acceptance Rivers

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Khalil Gibran

Poet, Writer

“Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.”

Running Light Rivers

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John Ruskin

Art Critic, Writer

“Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.”

Air Rivers

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Jonathan Swift

Satirist, Writer

“The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.”

Mean Spring

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Lin Yutang

Writer

“All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.”

Order Death Rivers

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Jean Toomer

Poet, Novelist

“If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.”

Feelings Rivers Curves

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Joel Miller

Author, Speaker

“Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.”

Government Today Rivers

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.”

Book Running Rivers

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Joseph Conrad

Novelist, Short Story Writer

“Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.”

Book Inspiration Rivers

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