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After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river. -- William Henry Ashley
If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free. -- Jane Birkin
I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I like pine trees. I like cold rivers. -- Joseph Monninger
Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay. -- Robert Brady
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive. -- Iris Apfel
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. -- William Least Heat-Moon
If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. -- Anchee Min
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. -- Victor Hugo
Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing -- Albert Schweitzer
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. -- Oren Lyons
Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?' -- Carl Sandburg
There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Tears are a river that takes you somewhereâ?¦Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. -- Ray Bradbury
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River. -- Karl Marlantes
A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow. -- Liu Zongyuan

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