Branch Penobscot River

Famous quotes containing the words branch, penobscot and/or river:

    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    —James Branch Cabell (1879–1958)

    “It is a war against the pines, the only real Aroostook or Penobscot war.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,
    Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks.
    From river to river you comb the town
    For a place to lay your family down.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)