Famous quotes containing the words fall, river and/or valley:
“Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“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)
“In a valley late bees with whining gold
Thread summer to the loose ends of sleep....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
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