River National

Famous quotes containing the words river and/or national:

“There is a great river this side of Stygia,”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)