Steamboats On The Mississippi Quotes & Sayings

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her. — Dan Hill

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing. — Greg LeMond

If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As a young man he began piloting steamboats on the Mississippi, a job he loved and wanted to do the rest of his life, he said. The Civil War ended traffic on the River and his job. He wrote about it in A History of A Campaign That Failed. He said: "I joined the Confederacy, served for two weeks, deserted, and the Confederacy fell." His attachment to the Southern ideal of slavery does not appear very sturdy. — Hal Holbrook

I don't think we're fit for visual consumption."
Adrian reached up and cranked the rearview mirror his way. "Whatever, I'm gorgeous ... wow. I ... "
"Look like shit. — J.R. Ward

I define a nose, as follows, - intreating only beforehand, and beseeching my readers, both male and female, of what age, complexion, and condition soever, for the love of God and their own souls, to guard against the temptations and suggestions of the devil, and suffer him by no art or wile to put any other ideas into their minds, than what I put into my definition. - For by the word Nose, throughout all this long chapter of noses, and in every other part of my work, where the word Nose occurs, - I declare, by that word I mean a Nose, and nothing more, or less. — Laurence Sterne

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him. — C.S. Lewis

We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled. — Narendra Modi

Boredom is a great catalyst. — Marty Rubin

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back. — Nick Bantock

Respect the Sword, Grimm. — Michael Buckley