River Avon (Old Brythonic abona, "river") is the name of many rivers:
Read more about River Avon: England, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Wales
Famous quotes containing the words river and/or avon:
“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)
“Far from the sun and summer-gale
In thy green lap was Nature’s Darling laid,
What time, where lucid Avon stray’d,
To him the mighty mother did unveil
Her awful face:”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)