Yangtze River Patrol

Famous quotes containing the words yangtze river, yangtze and/or river:

    In the Yangtze River waves push the waves ahead; so in life new people constantly replace the old ones.
    Chinese proverb.

    In the Yangtze River waves push the waves ahead; so in life new people constantly replace the old ones.
    Chinese proverb.

    I am advised that there is an unexpended balance of about $45,000 of the fund appropriated for the relief of the sufferers by flood upon the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and I recommend that authority be given to use this fund to meet the most urgent necessities of the poorer people in Oklahoma.
    Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)