Snake River Country

Famous quotes containing the words snake, river and/or country:

“Even in a bamboo tube, a snake still wants to wiggle.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It is impossible to step into the same river twice.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)

“Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn’t it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a “Sunday chil” and no “Sunday chil” could hurry? I don’t think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)