Adventure Quote by John Hanning Speke

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their…

— Robert Bauval

As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so…

— Thomas Sydenham

“It is not required that we know all of the details about every stretch of the river. Indeed, were we to know, it would…

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

“The Nile is famous for overflowing like my love. How fertile is your valley?”

— Jarod Kintz

And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the…

— Bible

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen.…

— James Dickey

“As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of one of…

— john knowles

“A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one’s feet and then beat a quick retreat to the shore.…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

— William Henry Ashley

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the…

— Myrtle Reed

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