River Plate Granted

Famous quotes containing the words river, plate and/or granted:

    “We are bare. We are stripped to the bone
    and we swim in tandem and go up and up
    the river, the identical river called Mine
    and we enter together. No one’s alone.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Our press is certainly bankrupt in the “thrill of awe”Motherwise reverence: reverence for nickel plate and brummagem. Let us sincerely hope that this fact will remain a fact forever; for to my mind a discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed,
    That I languished and pined till I granted the rest.”
    —John Gay (1685–1732)