Family Quote by Stephen Birmingham

“After an hour’s drive, he pulled off onto a gravel road and followed it back to a lake surrounded by woods. At one time,…

— Angela Roquet

“We left New York drunk and early on the morning of February second. After fifteen days on the water and six on the boat…

— Groucho Marx

“He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage, under the notion of my being a young acquaintance of his…

— Benjamin Franklin

“It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates and cornelians…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean…

— Ernest Hemingway

“When the rain came it came first as the scent of rain, the grey air stained darker behind the hills. Then when it came…

— Kirsty Gunn

“Trousers rolled to the knee but still they got wet. They tied the rope to a cleat at the rear of the boat and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The trip home always seemed to take half the time, because Murphy and Little Paint were eager for their dinner. We clung like burrs…

— Linda Ronstadt

“I'd been to the island on most weekends up until I got shot, and Thomas had often come with me. We'd used some fresh…

— Jim Butcher

“If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well,…

— Christopher Moore

“The river grew dark and on the boat a peaceful silence reigned. Some voices wafted over from the opposite bank and a stray canoe…

— Zdeněk Jirotka

“And the boat and the dock and the gravel on the shore, the trees sky-pointed or crouching, leaning out over the water, the complicated…

— Alice Munro