Ascending Limb

Famous quotes containing the words ascending and/or limb:

“It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“... our great-grandmothers were prudes. The reason why they talked so much about their souls, I fancy, is that there was hardly a limb or a feature of the human body that they thought it proper to mention.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)