Upriver Quotes

#1. The author of "Somewhere Upriver" sometimes shoves a lopsided word into an otherwise balanced sentence, thinking it's a kind of verbal jazz.

Patrick Loafman

#2. Sister Walburga ate some of the sausage she was taking upriver for the anchorites, but you'd think from her distress that she was a Horseman of the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon rolled into one.

Ariana Franklin

#3. I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

Max Lucado

#4. Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

Alex Haley

#5. Trouble was, everyone always made talking out a problem sound like it was so simple and solved everything, but actually doing it, and securing the desired outcome without screwing up, seemed about as easy as rowing upriver with a teaspoon.

Babette James

#6. I don't talk like that about men because I prefer celibacy to bullshit.

C.D. Reiss

#7. I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

Louie Anderson

#8. If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?

George S. Patton

#9. He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

Frederick Douglass

#10. I am Loved by the King, and it makes my heart want to sing!

Chris Tomlin