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“Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.”

Men Stills Running Water Silence Mirrors Running Water Still Waters

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.”

Running Past Humanity Universe Growth Water Rocks Cry Ignorant Enlightened Creeds Halt Running Water

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water”

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Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

“All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.”

Men Doe Soul Matter Running Water Known Clear Sweet Flower Wall Genius Pure Degrees Conscious Rivers Wilderness Be A Man Running Water

Book:The Stones of Venice...

Source: The Stones of Venice...

“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.”

Years Running Kids Fall House Water Poor Childhood Garden Hot Our Children Raised Humble Meat Milk Cows Hog Hot Water Bathtubs Running Water

Author:Phil Robertson

“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.”

“I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.”

People World Mean Country Running Turns Water Thirds Hot Available Granted Turn-on Third World Running Water Third World Countries

Author:Assata Shakur

“I moved into the garage at my mom's house, she wouldn't let me into the house, and the garage didn't have any running water. It did have electricity though, but it didn't have any running water, no bathroom. But, you know, it was great for me because I had my books there.”

Knows Book Running House Water Mom Let Me Moved My Mom Electricity Bathroom Garage Running Water

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.”

Ifs Should Hard Running Heaven Water Born Teacher Teaching Sweet Streams Ponds Stagnant Running Water

Book:The Voice of the Silence

Source: The Voice of the Silence

“My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.”

People Ifs Running Age Form Water Havens Stones My Favorite Golden Huts Triangles Thailand Favorite Places Running Water Stone Age Stilts

Author:Arthur Frommer

“The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don't have these.”

People World Way Running Law Water Security Kings West Britain Electricity Rule Of Law Running Water

Author:Bill Bailey

“The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.”

Giving Running Water Tree Humility Fruit Running Water

Book:The Interior Castle

Source: The Interior Castle

“It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.”

Want Running Water Running Water

Author:Gwendoline Riley