Engineering Quote by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year,…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

It does not take much technical knowledge to understand why the interlinking of rivers is an absurd idea and a ruinous project.

— Prashant Bhushan

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

— Paulo Coelho

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes,…

— Ron Kind

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

— Blaise Pascal

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going,…

— Hal Boyle

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

— Rob Brown

The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as…

— Mark Twain

Then as it was, then again it will be, and though the course will change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.

— Ritu Ghatourey

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?

— Rodney Dangerfield

In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may…

— John Selden

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

— Anchee Min