"Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made."

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Source : Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

Margaret Craven

#Past Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.”
“A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it.”
“If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”
“I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.”
“All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.”

Source : 'Mimnermus in Church'
“It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.”

Source : Remark at Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, 1980.
“I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.”
“I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.”

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