Famous quotes containing the words river and/or waters:
“It is impossible to step into the same river twice.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)
“Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)