Charging Downstream

Famous quotes containing the words charging and/or downstream:

    “Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
    Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
    And charging along like troops in a battle,
    All through the meadows the horses and cattle;”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “Building up a family’s fortune is like moving earth with a needle, but losing a family’s fortune can be as swift as a boat rushing downstream with the current.”
    —Chinese proverb.