White River Flows

Famous quotes containing the words white, river and/or flows:

    “The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)

    “Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.”
    —Minna Antrim (1861–?)