Famous quotes containing the words american and/or general:
“The American ideal is youth—handsome, empty youth.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“No doubt, the short distance to which you can see in the woods, and the general twilight, would at length react on the inhabitants, and make them savages. The lakes also reveal the mountains, and give ample scope and range to our thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)