Running Water Quotes

• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Fishing, Rivers

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Time, Rain

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• Running water never grows stale.

  Bruce Lee

  Running, Water, Stale

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.180, Tuttle Publishing

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

  Gwendoline Riley

  Running, Water, Want

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• Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Running, Rivers, People

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• It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

  Sandy Lyle

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Golf

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• The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Running, Memorable, Rivers

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• Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Running, Home, Memorable

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• We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

  Alan Watts

  Running, Stars, Fire

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.92, New World Library

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• One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

  Catullus

  Running, Women, Writing

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Running, Men, Mirrors

  "Zhuangzi: Basic Writings". Book by Zhuangzi, Columbia University Press, p. 64, 2003.

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• Running water is perceived as being filled with vitality.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Running, Water, Vitality

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• 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.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Running, Teacher, Sweet

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Voice of the Silence”, p.52, BookRix

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• 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.

  Assata Shakur

  Running, Country, Mean

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• What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Running, Stars

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.92, New World Library

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

  Teresa of Avila

  Running, Humility, Giving

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1979). “The Interior Castle”, p.181, Paulist Press

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• God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of the summer fields, and taste of the autumn fruits, and rejoice in the feel of the snow, and smell the breath of the spring. Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Summer, Running, Song

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• I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.

  Lena Dunham

  Running, Thinking, Water

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.92, Random House

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• Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

  danah boyd

  Running, Water, Modern Life

  danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.26, Yale University Press

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• Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.

  Stuart Dybek

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Stuart Dybek (2004). “The Coast of Chicago: Stories”, p.86, Picador

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• The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

  Dogen

  Inspirational, Life, Running

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• The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Phones, People

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• Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.

  Loren Eiseley

  Running, Journey, Air

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.16, Vintage

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