Famous quotes containing the words street, river and/or road:
“Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and tavern.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)
“O Russia! O my wife! Our long and narrow Road lies clear though distressed.
Our road with an old Tatar freedoms arrow Has deeply pierced our breast.”
—Alexander Blok (18801921)
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