Top 17 The Secret River Quotes

#1. Haven't you ever harbored the secret thought that somewhere Huck and Jim are - at this instant - poling their raft down some river just beyond our reach, so much more real are they than the shoe clerk who fitted us just a forgotten day ago?

Dan Simmons

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#2. Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

Rumi

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#3. Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

David Bly

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#4. Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.

Linda Lingle

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#5. 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

Kate Grenville

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#6. It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number.

John Roberts

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#7. Three men can keep a secret only once two of them are at the bottom of the river.

Django Wexler

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#8. As Matt walked Rick outside, he whispered, "Don't forget my little secret." He wiggled his eyebrows. "A happy wife. A happy life. Got it?"
Rick nodded. "Got it.

Linda Weaver Clarke

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#9. It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.

Joan Crawford

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#10. The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I'd measure my progress in inches. One more inch I've swum - one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody's river can bring you down.

Bette Greene

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#11. If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up,

Isabella Blow

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#12. It's so important to me to take care of my voice. I do a lot of vocal warms-ups right before I go on.

Tori Kelly

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#13. Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

William Godwin

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#14. I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

Brian Andreas

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#15. Cities were once rural and one day they will turn to be rural again.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#16. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Richard Dawkins

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#17. No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people
that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.

Lionel Shriver

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