White River Flows

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

    “With sweetest milk, and sugar, first
    I it as mine own fingers nurst.
    And as it grew, so every day
    It wax’d more white and sweet than they.
    It had so sweet a Breath!”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

    “Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.”
    —J.B. (John Boynton)

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