666 Quotes About Rivers


  • Author Pat Buchanan
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    Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

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  • Author Philip James Bailey
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    Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

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  • Author Ray Bradbury
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    The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

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  • Author Robert A. Brady
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    Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

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  • Author Robert Burns
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    But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

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  • Author Robert Burns
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    Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

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