Fall River Valley

Famous quotes containing the words fall, river and/or valley:

    Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 15:14.

    Referring to the Pharisees.

    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)

    I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)