Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or bill:
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“As for farming, I am convinced that my genius dates from an older era than the agricultural. I would at least strike my spade into the earth with such careless freedom but accuracy as the woodpecker his bill into a tree.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)