Famous quotes containing the words rivers, national and/or preserve:
“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Just so before we’re international,
We’re national and act as nationals.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)