Mary River

Mary River may refer to:

  • Mary River (Northern Territory), Australia
  • Mary River (Queensland), Australia
  • Mary River (Western Australia)
  • Mary River (Nunavut), Canada

Famous quotes containing the words mary and/or river:

    “I met with virgins seven,
    And one of them was Mary mild,
    Our Lord’s mother from heaven.”
    —Unknown. The Seven Virgins (l. 2–4)

    “There are knives that glitter like altars
    In a dark church
    Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
    To be healed.

    There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
    Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
    —Charles Simic (b. 1938)