Upper Black Eddy

Famous quotes containing the words upper, black and/or eddy:

    Like many of the Upper Class He liked the Sound of Broken Glass.
    Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

    A boy not beautiful, nor good, nor clever,
    A black cloud full of storms too hot for keeping,
    A sword beneath his mother’s heart— yet never
    Woman bewept her babe as this is weeping.
    John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
    —Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)