Famous quotes containing the words classic, american and/or love:
“Shatter the icons of slavery and fear.
Replace
the leer
of the minstrels burnt-cork face
with a proud, serene
and classic bronze of Benin.”
—Dudley Randall (b. 1914)
“Miss U.S.A. is in the same graveyard that [Amanda Jones] the twelve-year-old is. Where the sixteen-year-old is. All the past selves. There comes a time when you have to bury those selves because youve grown into another one.”
—Amanda Theodosia Jones, U.S. beauty contest winner, Miss U.S.A., 1973. As quoted under the pseudonym Emma Wright in American Dreams, Prologue, by Studs Terkel (1980)
“And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever
servant, insufferable master.
There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that
caughtthey sayGod, when he walked on earth.”
—Robinson Jeffers (18871962)