Grey Upper Parts

Famous quotes containing the words grey, upper and/or parts:

“Towns are ... excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

““All men live in suffering
I know as few can know,
Whether they take the upper road
Or stay content on the low....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, and again, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)