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The sky's inclemency stirs up the angry winds;the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain.The turbulent Vltava, swollen with rainy waves,Bursting, impetuous, breaks through its river banks. -- Elizabeth Jane Weston
Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. -- Clive Anderson
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. -- Rollo May
An array of colorful camps dotted the river banks, like a garrison of army on a peace keeping mission. A mini India, many great nations. different people living in the same place, an inversion of the notion of nation." -- Aporva Kala
A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas. -- Francis Parkman
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. -- John Hope
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. -- Max Muller
Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention. -- Pierce Brosnan
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools. -- Billy Sunday
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. -- Vinoba Bhave
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. -- Victor Hugo
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. -- William Bartram
I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment. -- Steve Southerland
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. -- Jose Saramago
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud. -- Saint Ambrose
Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge. -- Haile Gebrselassie
The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them. -- Martin Van Creveld
Time is a river without banks. -- Marc Chagall
A river without banks is a large puddle. -- Ken Blanchard
With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. -- Domenico Cieri
Tears are just the overflow from the river-banks of the heart. -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. -- Alain-Rene Lesage
Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. -- Paulo Coelho
Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks. -- Barry N. Malzberg
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. -- Indira Gandhi
Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. -- Nick Flynn
We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow. -- Hester Lynch Piozzi
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. This is spirit of gratitude; the more grateful you are, the more your life overflow with abundance. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

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