666 Quotes About Rivers


  • Author Anna Akhmatova
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    This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.

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  • Author Ashanti
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    Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

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  • Author Brian Andreas
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    I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

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  • Author Cecelia Ahern
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    Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

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  • Author Dante Alighieri
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    So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

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  • Author Dean Acheson
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    You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

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