River Common

Famous quotes containing the words river and/or common:

    “The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.”
    —Book Of Common Prayer, The. The Second Sunday in Advent, “The Collect,” (1662)