Red River Division

Famous quotes containing the words red, river and/or division:

    “Her breasts under her gown
    are cold,
    for a flower has grown,
    murex-red
    on the red gown.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,
    Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks.
    From river to river you comb the town
    For a place to lay your family down.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    “For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17-9.