American Convention

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or convention:

“Old age begins in the nursery, and before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, “I want something which I never saw before” and “I wish I was not I.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.