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River Quotes by Mark Twain
- The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...
- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period…
- Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
- Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly…
- The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful…
- We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the…
More River Quotes
- Don't Love A Friend Like A Flower, Because A Flower Dies In Season. Love Them Like A River, Because A River Flows… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in… — Albert Pike
- I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree?… — A A Milne
- Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when… — A A Milne
- In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians… — Daniel Boone
- I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the… — James Cameron