Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or high:
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I remember once dreaming of pushing a canoe up the rivers of Maine, and that, when I had got so high that the channels were dry, I kept on through the ravines and gorges, nearly as well as before, by pushing a little harder, and now it seemed to me that my dream was partially realized.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)