Bedford River

Famous quotes containing the words bedford and/or river:

“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)