Rushing Water Quotes:

Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Pain, Moving, Wine, Rushing Water, Back And Forth

What batters you becomes your strength.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Rushing Water

There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it...

- Mark Helprin

source: Mark Helprin (2012). “In Sunlight and in Shadow”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Rushing, Water, Alive, Rushing Water

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

topic: Mother, Water, Matter, Spring Water, Mineral Water

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

- George MacDonald

source: George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

topic: Oxygen, Rushing, White, Elementals, Rushing Water

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

- Jimmy Rushing

topic: Rushing, Typical, Records, Rushing In, Rushing Water

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

- Laozi

topic: Strong, Power, Water, Stagnant Water, Adamant

His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with His glory.

- Christy Nockels

topic: Land, Voice, Rushing, Rushing Water

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston Churchill (2012). “The Crossing”, p.6, The Floating Press

topic: Book, Evening Light, Blue, Ridges, Rushing Water

Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service... I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

- Barack Obama

source: President Barack Obama's remarks at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony in Columbia University, New York, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

topic: Graduation, Passion, Rushing, Older Generation, Fluency