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“I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.”

Past Trouble Rivers Disappointment East Bags Packs Headache

Author:Trygve Lie

“Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.”

Body Past Flow Rivers Exciting Cells Memorable Fiber

Author:John Muir

“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.”

May Ends Lasts Past Sea Return Ocean Rivers Mysterious Streams Origin Of Life Transmutation

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.”

Past Huge Rivers

Author:Ilya Kabakov

“Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.”

Way Made Ends Past Waiting Rivers Village Adventurous Climax Swimmer Adventurous Life

Book:I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Source: I Heard the Owl Call My Name

“I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.”

Littles Past Used Heaven Stars Black Doubt Car Figures Lovers Angel Rivers Boat My Past My Lover Radiohead Row Boats

Author:Thom Yorke

“Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.”

People Has Beens Ideas Able Past Belief United Sea Design Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Progressive

Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”

“Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.”

Men World Want Soul Past Dies Father Masters Music Is Rivers Spread Streams Nurture Rough Times

Author:Ali Akbar Khan

“Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons