“ If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.". ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
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“ A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.5K
“ You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. ”
- Heraclitus- Copy
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“ Bell, book, and candle, shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I'll habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth. ”
- Muhammad Ali- Copy
- 2K
“ Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. ”
- Nikita Khrushchev- Copy
- 679
“ Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. ”
- John Locke- Copy
- 1.5K
“ When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. ”
- Daniel Boone- Copy
- 421
“ Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
- 2.1K
“ May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. ”
- Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro- Copy
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“ To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
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“ We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. ”
- Shana Alexander- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A wonderful stream is the river Time, As it runs through the realms of Tears, With a faultless rhythm, and a musical rhyme, As it blends with the Ocean of Years. ”
- Benjamin F. Taylor- Copy
- 3.4K
“ People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars; and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. ”
- Saint Augustine- Copy
- 3.3K
“ A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. ”
- George William Curtis- Copy
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“ I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants. ”
- Greg Egan- Copy
- 3K
“ There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love's eyes. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
- 1.7K
“ On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,In every rill a sweet instruction flows. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 2.1K
“ George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be.'' Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river. ”
- George Foreman- Copy
- 186
“ The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving. ”
- Harold Mayfield- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 2.4K
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