Rivers in the Desert Quotes

“hundreds of decorated automobiles and elaborate floats, one featuring a roaring lion, declawed for the occasion but symbolizing the fierce determined spirit of the city, was turned out for two hundred and fifty thousand gasping Angelenos thronged in the streets to marvel at in wondrous civic pride.”
― Margaret Leslie Davis, Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles

“Anxiety-neurosis had been observed in soldiers in World War I, but once a soldier was removed from the stress of combat, symptoms generally disappeared.”
― Margaret Leslie Davis, Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles

“A man’s worth is measured by his importance to society and to humanity generally,”
― Margaret Leslie Davis, Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles