River Quote by Rodney P. Romig

“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her…

— Mark Twain

“And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its…

— Jack Kerouac

“The Mississippi was now in our possession from its source to its mouth, except in the immediate front of Vicksburg and of Port Hudson.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

The Mississippi River she's a goin' dry.

— Hank Williams Jr

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

“One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver—not aloud, but to himself—that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their…

— Mark Twain

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

“the river Ankh, a waterway so muddy that it looks as if it is flowing upside down.”

— Terry Pratchett

“And how’s the water in that river this time of year?”

— Evangeline Anderson

“...the headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse.”

— Roger Zelazny

“This river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to make of the river an ersatz…

— John Kennedy Toole

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which…

— George Catlin