Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled."
Streams quotes
Streams
58 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"No stream rises higher than its source"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."
Laozi
Philosopher
"How do I become still? By flowing with the stream."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Philosopher, Educator
"Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams."
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"The stream is always purer at its source."
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"The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]"
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"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."
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"Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream."
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"You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience."
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"Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream."
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"Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream."
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"Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons."
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"Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know."
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"Islands in the streams, that is what we are."
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"All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye."
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"If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?"
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"Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable."
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"The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang."
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"Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready."
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