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Quotes tagged “River”

“Don't be the leaf that floats down the river. Be the stone that splits the stream.”
— Squeeze, Sorry to Bother You
Tagged: Leaf, River, Extended Metaphor Example
“[Lewis and Ed take a wrong turn looking for the river]

First Griner: Where you goin' city boy?

Lewis: We'll find it. We'll find it.

Second Griner: It ain't nothin' but the biggest fuckin' river in the state.”
— Lewis Medlock, Deliverance
Tagged: Urban, Rural, city boy, River
“Life is a waterfall. We drink from the river.”
— System Of A Down, Aerials
Tagged: Life, waterfall, Metaphor Examples, Drink, River
“Though it is 2500 feet high, the glacier flowed over its ground as a river flows over a boulder; and since it emerged from the icy sea as from a sepulcher it has been sorely beaten with storms; but from all those deadly, crushing, bitter experiences comes this delicate life and beauty, to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation.”
— John Muir, Wilderness Essays
Tagged: Glacier, River, Boulder, beauty, Destruction, Creation
“Cross the river by feeling for stones.”
— Deng Xiaoping, Understanding China Today: An Exploration of Politics, Economics, Society, and International Relations
Tagged: cross, Trials, Difficulties, Feel, crossing, River, wise saying, Wisdom
“Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.”
— Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Tagged: Hydrogen selenide, chemical, Gas, Smell, worst, Hell, hydrogen telluride, brimstone, River, Fiery, odor, lake
“Jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me, a moonful of stars and astral cars, and all the figures I used to see.”
— Thom Yorke, Pyramid Song
Tagged: River, Angels, Stars, astral, Cars, figures, Visions
“It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
But it don't snow here
It stays pretty green
I'm going to make a lot of money
Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on.”
— Joni Mitchell, River
Tagged: Joni Mitchell, Love, River
“Be like the flowing river, 
Silent in the night. 
Be not afraid of the dark. 
If there are stars in the sky, reflect them back. 
If there are clouds in the sky, 
Remember, clouds, like the river, are water. 
So, gladly reflect them too, 
In your own tranquil depths”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Nature, River, Paulo Coelho, Light, Depth, Reflection, Contemplation
“A good river is nature's life work in song.”
— Mark Helprin, Freddy and Fredericka
Tagged: River, Nature

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