"We were therefore obliged to unload our boats……" — William Henry Ashley
"We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes."
More Boats Quotes
- Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive… — Warren Buffett
- Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. — Woody Allen
- No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. — Carlos Fuentes
- Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers… — Ben Jonson
- Little boats should keep near shore — Benjamin Franklin
- I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock. — Phil Donahue
- When you don't cling to anything, there is nowhere to go - all boats have been abandoned, you cannot go… — Rajneesh
- Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside… — Arthur Morrison
- Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river… — Oren Lyons
- The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of… — Qurratulain Hyder