Quotes About Upper

the growth on his upper lip so sparse that each hair could be named after an apostle.

Washington is in the clear upper sky.

"Pass in, pass in," the angels say,"In to the upper doors,Nor count compartments of the floors,But mount to paradiseBy the stairway of surprise."

Despite their contributions, camp followers ranked on the very bottom of the social scale. Although the soldiers for whom they toiled may have appreciated their services, they received nothing but scorn from the upper classes.

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

The tens of thousands of fans posting to online forums have more control over what happens next than any of the upper brass.

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

Ah, Piglet, you must never trust Young ladies from the upper crust.

The earth is surrounded by death. The upper regions, where there is no air, are crowded with death pure and unalloyed; it gazes down on humanity going about its business far below and bound by its physical conditions on earth, yet very seldom does it bring bodily death to man, since those same physical conditions prevent him from climbing this far. For man to encounter the universe as he is, with uncovered countenance, is death.

Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers.

I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.

My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.

I lived in a basement duplex on 96th Street on the Upper West Side.

In the polyglot Upper Peninsula of Michigan calling a man, say, an Irishman is rarely an effort to demean or stigmatize him

of the river, somewhat removed from Rombaden, are some forty or fifty medium to large estates belonging to the wealthy and upper crust of the area.

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

And you did all of this before I awakened?' 'Not all of us can afford to be layabouts ... You upper class types are all the same. Sleep until noon and then fritter your nights away.' She narrowed her eyes. 'I do not fritter my nights away.' 'Really? And what do you do at night?' 'I go to social events. Parties or galas. Sometimes a musicale. Or a charity event,' she tacked on with satisfaction. 'Well, I must retract my frittering comment in that case.' 'It's not frittering. It's surviving.

The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it.

After further discussion it was settled that he was to have the upper berth, the old man the lower, and the boy the couch. The Reverend Mr. Upton seemed disappointed. He had played the role of martyr so long he resented seeing any one else in the part.

The financial squeeze at Court was greeted with shrill cries by those on the upper reaches of society who saw it as the primary duty of the Crown to provide them with a comfortable livelihood.

What I did with his automobile was fairly dramatic and somewhat risky, but still a lot easier than finding a parking place on the Upper East Side.

With the rich, experience has already taught him that a different line of action is necessary. Men in the upper walks of life do not mind being cursed, and the women, presuming that it be done in delicate phrase, rather like it.

For you have confused the upper and lower worlds. You have thrust the child of this world into living night, You have kept from the gods below the child that is theirs. The one on a grave before her death, the other, Dead, denied the grave. This is your crime.