Upper Part

Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or part:

“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)