#river

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. ↗

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#beset #channel #conjecture #distance #explore

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

You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants. ↗

— Bobby Rahal

#car #down #driver #every #know

When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#age #becoming #before #change #did

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

— Boris Johnson

#i love #jumping #love #once #remember

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#across #afternoon #headline #i #morning

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

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car. ↗