Alton Wood River

Famous quotes containing the words wood and/or river:

“If the axe is not sharp, it doesn’t matter how hard the wood is.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.””
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)