White River Flows

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

    “Whether he cringe at my feet,
    whether he beat on your eyes,
    white wings, white butterflies.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
    Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,”
    —Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)