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“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
Winnie the Pooh
“When the river is deepest it makes least noise”
Proverb
“You can never enter the same river twice.”
Indian Proverb
“I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.”
W. H. Auden
“You know a dream is like a river/ Ever changing as it flows./ And a dreamer's not just a vessel/ That must flow where it goes.”
Garth Brooks
“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
Paulo Coelho
“Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.”
Dr. Richard Selzer
“You and I can turn and lookat the silent river and wait. We knowthe current is there, hidden; and thereare comings and goings from miles awaythat hold the stillness exactly before us.What the river says, that is what I say.”
William Stafford
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”
Norman Maclean
“Even the upper end of the riverbelieves in the ocean.”