White River Flows

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

    “Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Cole Thornton: Just a minute, son.
    Mississippi: I am not your son. My name is Alan Bourdillon Traherne.
    Cole: Lord almighty.
    Mississippi: Yeah, well, that’s why most people call me Mississippi. I was born on the river in a flatboat.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)

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