Backwater Quotes

All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! (Kenneth Grahame)
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater. View quote
Stacy Schiff
Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl? View quote
Clive Cussler
As the main work of civilisation has been the vindication of the rights of the weak, it is not too much, I think, to insist that the practice of Vivisection in which this tyranny of strength culminates is a retrograde step in the progress of our race-a backwater in the onward flowing stream of justice and mercy, no less portentous than deplorable. View quote
Frances Power Cobbe
We were content to be undisturbed in our our little backwater, Union Grove, Washington County, in a place once called the Empire State, where the Battenkill runs into the Hudson River. View quote
James Howard Kunstler