Savage River

Famous quotes containing the words savage and/or river:

“Mother, I cannot mind my wheel;
My fingers ache, my lips are dry:”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

“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)