Weir River Estuary

Famous quotes containing the words weir, river and/or estuary:

    “The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s cheque-books.”
    —Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914)

    “You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,
    Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks.
    From river to river you comb the town
    For a place to lay your family down.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    “There is regret. Always, there is regret.
    But it is better that our lives unloose,
    As two tall ships, wind-mastered, wet with light,
    Break from an estuary with their courses set,
    And waving part, and waving drop from sight.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)