Grey Upper Parts

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

“Ae spring brought off her master hale,
But left behind her ain grey tail:”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.

“still a betrayal room for the till-death-do-us
and yet a death, as in the unlocking of scissors
that makes the now separate parts useless,
even to cut each other up as we did yearly
under the crayoned-in sun.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)