Upper Black Eddy

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

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

    “On the middle of that quiet floor
    sits a fleet of small black ships,
    square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
    their spars like burned matchsticks.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “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)