666 Quotes About Rivers


  • Author Donald Barthelme
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    I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore.

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  • Author Edward De Bono
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    Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

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  • Author Francis Bacon
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    Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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  • Author Garth Brooks
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    A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

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  • Author Garth Brooks
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    You know a dream is like a river Ever changing as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel That must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what's behind you And never knowing what's in store Makes each day a constant battle Just to stay between the shores.

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  • Author Gaston Bachelard
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    Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

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  • Author Greg Brown
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    In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes me want to cry. Oh to clean our dirty planet, Now there's a noble wish, And I'm puttin' my shoulder to the wheel 'Cause I wanna catch some fish.

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  • Author Hal Borland
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    If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

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