Bodies of Water
- Pearl River (China), river in the south of China
- Pearl River Delta (PRD), area around the mouth of the Pearl River in Guangdong
- Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, economic region in the PRD
- Pearl River mega-city, proposed mega-city in the PRD
- Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana), in the United States
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Famous quotes containing the words bodies of, bodies and/or water:
“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
—Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.
“If water is too clear, it will not contain fish; people who are too cautious will never gain wisdom.”
—Chinese proverb.