Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or extremity:
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)