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Thames Quotes

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

David Walliams
Tired, Length, Thames
"David Walliams swim in river Thames makes a million for charity" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2011.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Charles Lyell
Long Ago, Southern, Thames
Charles Lyell (1873). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man with an Outline of Glacial and Post-tertiary Geology and Remarks on the Origin of Species with Special Reference to Mans First Appearance on the Earth by Charles Lyell”, p.202

The Thames is liquid history.

John Burns
History, Liquid, Thames
To an American who had compared the Thames disparagingly with the Mississippi, in 'Daily Mail' 25 January 1943

I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.

Ian Anderson
Israel, Picnics, Thames

If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.

Freeman Dyson
Beautiful, London, Thames
"Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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