666 Quotes About Rivers

  • Author John Moody
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    When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period

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  • Author Jon Meacham
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    One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

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  • Author Joseph Monninger
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    I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.

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  • Author Laura Marling
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    There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

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  • Author Margaret Mitchell
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    She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

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  • Author Max Muller
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    While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

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  • Author Michel de Montaigne
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    He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

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