Rivers

Famous quotes containing the word rivers:

    By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept: when we remembered Zion.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 137:1.

    As for evildoers, for them awaits a painful chastisement;
    but for those who believe, and do deeds
    of righteousness, they shall be admitted
    to gardens underneath which rivers flow,
    therein dwelling forever,
    by the leave of their Lord, their greeting
    therein: “Peace!”
    Qur’An. Abraham 14:28 (ed. Arthur J. Arberry, 1955)

    Thy summer voice, Musketaquit,
    Repeats the music of the rain;
    But sweeter rivers pulsing flit
    Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)