Crosses Grand River

Famous quotes containing the words crosses, grand and/or river:

    “Life is like walking along a crowded street—there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement—and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “There are knives that glitter like altars
    In a dark church
    Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
    To be healed.

    There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
    Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
    —Charles Simic (b. 1938)