Downward Pointing Hairs

Famous quotes containing the words downward, pointing and/or hairs:

“But what she meets and what she fears
Are less than are the downward years,
Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
Of age, were she to lose him.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“And they heaved a mighty breath, every soul on board but me,
As they saw her nose again pointing handsome out to sea;
But all that I could think of, in the darkness and the cold,
Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

“Though those who study are as many as the number of hairs on an ox, those who succeed are as rare as unicorns’ horns.”
—Chinese proverb.