Mark Twain Quotes, Rivers Quotes, Water Quotes

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Country Quotes , Rivers Quotes

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

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Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

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Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Way Quotes

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Children Quotes , Rivers Quotes

The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

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

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Life Quotes , Rivers Quotes

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Rivers Quotes , West Quotes