Upper Black Eddy

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

    “The first to strike will gain the upper hand.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.”
    —Ellen Galinsky (20th century)

    ““... A nation has to take its natural course
    Of Progress round and round in circles
    From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
    Until the eddy of it eddies out.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)