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Rivers 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.
- Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
- 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 Rivers Quotes
- 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
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- 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
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt
- Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton
- Love is the river of life in the world. — Henry Ward Beecher