Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or east:
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)