River Rivers

Famous quotes containing the words river and/or rivers:

    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)

    By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, then we remembered Zion.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXXVII (l. CXXXVII, 1)