Famous quotes containing the words fall, river and/or valley:
“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they dont fall out they let them live another year.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;”
—Thomas Moore (17791852)
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