Upper Avon

Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or avon:

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

    Far from the sun and summer-gale
    In thy green lap was Nature’s Darling laid,
    What time, where lucid Avon stray’d,
    To him the mighty mother did unveil
    Her awful face:
    Thomas Gray (1716–1771)