#river

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. Priestley

#down #drink #i #i see #much

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#avenue #away #far #far away #grew

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. ↗

— Black Elk

#anything #came #dance #during #eighteenth

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#backwards #born #contented #expect #free

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#cattle #could #crossing #find #gathered

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#i love #jumping #love #once #remember

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. ↗

— John Joly

#built #collective #feeble #many #miles

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#been #find #i #new #nothing

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#citizenship #confer #does #driver #get

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river. ↗

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

#catch #course #dazzling #down #drown