River Quotes

1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother… — Dale T. Mortensen
If you have a river, then you should share it with everyone. — Chen Guangbiao
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. — Clifton Fadiman
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. — Horace
The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days,… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. — John Hope
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United… — John Moody
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were… — John Moody
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began… — William Henry Ashley
Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between… — Rebecca Harding Davis
We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river. — Knute Nelson
Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. — Jerry Costello
We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River. — Roy Barnes
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there… — Ron Kind
One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work… — Ron Kind
Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its… — Willy Ley
We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening… — Charles Sturt
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who… — Gordon Sinclair
Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the… — Leonard Boswell
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. — Fanny Kemble

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