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:
“The river’s tent is broken; the last fingers of leaf
Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.
Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible of civilisation. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that their reformation must be worked, and that Missionaries of that description from [France] would avail more than those who should endeavor to tame them by precepts of religion or philosophy.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)