The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. – Jose Saramago
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. – Carl Clinton Van Doren
A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the ’90s has survived the boom and bust years. – Bill Dedman
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. – David Hockney
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. – Charles Lyell
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. – John Joly
Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea. – Jim Gerlach
In some cases, it’s not just about cleaning up the factories. It’s about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals. – Ma Jun
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low. – Parris Glendening
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. – Winston Churchill
