Burnett River/2010-2011 Queensland Floods

Famous quotes containing the words burnett, river and/or floods:

    “If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.”
    —Carol Burnett (20th century)

    “At sundown, leaving the river road awhile for shortness, we went by way of Enfield, where we stopped for the night. This, like most of the localities bearing names on this road, was a place to name which, in the midst of the unnamed and unincorporated wilderness, was to make a distinction without a difference, it seemed to me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills be joyful together.
    Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth; with
    righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm XCVIII (l. XCVIII, 8–9)