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.

    The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.
    Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    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)