River Edge

Famous quotes containing the words river and/or edge:

“Cole Thornton: Just a minute, son.
Mississippi: I am not your son. My name is Alan Bourdillon Traherne.
Cole: Lord almighty.
Mississippi: Yeah, well, that’s why most people call me Mississippi. I was born on the river in a flatboat.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)

“They call back to us
from the gauzy edge of paradise,
good news, good news.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)