Waterway Quotes
- The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled… — Joseph Conrad
- As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses,… — Ron Kind
- We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also… — Thomas W. Horton
- . . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty… — Lyndon B. Johnson
- Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles,… — Martina Navratilova
- Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against… — Harlan Ellison
- I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in… — Rose George
- Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit a stream,… — Joseph Monninger
- Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. — Jerry Costello
- The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic… — John C. Stennis