Best rivers & source Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.”

Source Ocean Rivers Constant Currents Nobility Pacific Termination Pacific Ocean

Book:Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

“The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.”

Source: My Study Windows

“How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.”

Ifs Firsts Persons Would Be Names Impossible Source Rivers Following First Person

Book:Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

Source: Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

“The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.”

Firsts Father Belief Religious Doubt Saws Source Holy Rivers Function Lakes Religious Belief Victoria Expeditions Nile

Author:John Hanning Speke

“... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.”

“Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.”

Grows Source Pure Rivers Fortune Muddy

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.”

“Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death reminds us that we are part of the same river, the same flow from the same source, rushing towards the same destiny. Were you close? Yes, but we didn't know it then.”

Knows Heart May Destiny Source Flow Rivers Grieving Surviving Sibling Rushing Ambivalent

Author:Barbara Ascher

“For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.”

Lying Our Lives Land Source Mountain Essentials Rivers Absolutes Plant Desert Wildlife Bedrock

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.”

People Soul Spirit Water Knowing Source Blessing Protect Rivers Environmental Showers Rivers And Water Water Is Life

Author:Thomas Moore

“A river reaches places its source never knows.”

Knows Source Rivers

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.”

Mean Source Rivers Greed Woods Ruins

Book:The Rough Riders: An Autobiography

Source: The Rough Riders: An Autobiography

“The energy that moves life is the force of the Feminine. She is unstoppable. She is the source of all life, the mover of blood, the breather of breath, the flow of the river's water. The Feminine is life. We can feel Her moving and living in any moment we are open to Her, or as Her.”

Feels Moments Moving Life Is Energy Force Water Blood Source Flow Rivers Breaths Feminine Unstoppable

Author:David Deida

“Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.”

Trying Kind Said Self Fall Found Steps Creative Heard Mystery Source Rivers Landscape Realms Songwriters Linear Creative Work Wilder Linear Time

Author:Rosanne Cash

“Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?”

Ifs Knows Long Doe Self Matter Enough Past Reading Lost Source Mouths Rivers Connections Miles Does It Matter Old Self

Book:Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang

Source: Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang

“I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.”

Men Moments Turns Left Cities Behinds Records Sea Source Rivers Forests Existentialism Reverse Leading Me Nausea Existentialist

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.”

Reality Moving Water Events Source Ocean Mouths Rivers Connected

Book:The essence of Alan Watts

Source: The essence of Alan Watts

“They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?”

“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.”

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”

Past Time Water Secret Sea Source Mountain Ocean Mouths Shadow Rivers Fishes Currents Boat Lakes Fishing Waterfalls Siddhartha Ferry

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water. And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.”

“The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it gradually gathers the strength of the other rivers in encounters. And, after a certain point, its power is absolute.”

Certain Forget Sea Source Prove Yoga Rivers Absolutes Objectives Encounters Never Forget Fragile Routes Forget It

Author:Paulo Coelho

“This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you, and all these wrong ideas which came to you.”

Knows Way Love Kind Ideas Wisdom Spirit Forget Meditation Sea Source Ego Yoga Flow Rivers Various All Kinds Wellness Dirt Filth Wrong Ideas

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being.”

Water Source Rain Rivers This Life Heat Fountain Everlasting Quench

Author:Nicola Salvi

“Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play; civilizations emerged next to rivers in China, India, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. They sustain life and bring death and destruction. They are ferocious at times; gentle at times. They are placid and mean. They trigger conflict and delineate boundaries. Rivers are the stuff of metaphor and fable, painting and poetry. Rivers unite and divide - a thread that runs from source to exhausted release.”

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

Courses Acceptance Source Rivers

Book:A call to order: written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays

Source: A call to order: written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays

“Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.”

Firsts Doe Science Bits Consciousness Talking Expression Source Flow Rivers Train Metaphor Instance Chains Streams Subjective Hereafter Stream Of Consciousness

Author:William James

“The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.”

Men Forget Powerful Power Failing Source Rivers Most Powerful

Author:Clarence H. Burns

“A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, "rivers of living water" will flow out of us, reaching in blessing even "to the end of the earth" regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be.”

Ifs Knows May Persons Said Ends Earth Jesus Water Our Lives Effects Source Blessing Flow Rivers Encouragement Visible Reaching Fullness

Author:Oswald Chambers

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