He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of…

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were…

— Marie-Luise Gothein

For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from…

— James Henry Breasted

Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the Nile. This…

— Michael Tsarion

Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape…

— Robert Ardrey

India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards…

— Megasthenes

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in…

— Henry David Thoreau

The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that…

— Paul Theroux

I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient…

— Christopher Bollen

Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink…

— Kuki Gallmann

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive…

— David Ben-Gurion

“Khaemwaset’s eyes remained on the riverbank as the green confusion of spring glided by. Beyond the fecund, brilliant life of the bank with its…

— Pauline Gedge

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I…

— John Hanning Speke