Thick Ascending Limb

Famous quotes containing the words thick, ascending and/or limb:

    The trees persist, yeasty and sensuous,
    as thick as saints.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    To do good is like ascending a mountain; to do evil as easy as following an avalanche.
    Chinese proverb.

    should some limb of the devil
    Destroy the view by cutting down an ash
    That shades the road, or setting up a cottage
    Planned in a government office, shorten his life,
    Manacle his soul upon the Red Sea bottom.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)