Torch River

Famous quotes containing the words torch and/or river:

    The genius of Byron, which appeared at the beginning of this century, is like a funeral torch sculptured on our cradles.
    Emilio Castelar Y Ripoll (1832–1899)

    The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)