Big Sandy River

The Big Sandy River may refer to one of the following rivers in the United States:

  • The Big Sandy River (Ohio River), on the border between Kentucky and West Virginia
  • The Big Sandy River (Tennessee), a tributary of the Tennessee River
  • The Big Sandy River (Wyoming), a tributary of the Green River
  • The Big Sandy River (Arizona), a tributary of the Bill Williams River

Famous quotes containing the words big, sandy and/or river:

    “The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “So near along life’s stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)