River Tame is a Celtic river name, used in England to refer to:
- River Tame, Greater Manchester, a river that meets the Goyt to form the Mersey
- River Tame, West Midlands, the largest tributary of the Trent
- River Tame, North Yorkshire, a tributary of the Leven and then the Tees
Famous quotes containing the words river and/or tame:
“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.””
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)
“We must accept or refuse one another as we are. I could tame a hyena more easily than my Friend. He is a material which no tool of mine will work.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)