Famous quotes containing the words present day, form, present and/or day:
“One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“Man is a victim of dope
In the incurable form of hope.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
“If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
“The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.”
—Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914)