Muhammad Ali Quotes, Rivers Quotes, Ohio Quotes

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

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Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Eye Quotes , Rivers Quotes

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

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Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cities Quotes , Rivers Quotes

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

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An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Change Quotes , Rivers Quotes

A Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more.

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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

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A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Crosses Quotes

He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Life Quotes , Rivers Quotes

What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Humility Quotes , Rivers Quotes

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: for they win in advance, defeating those that have already lost.

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

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I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

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Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

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Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

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