Famous quotes containing the words general, convention and/or held:
“It was the words descended into Hades
That seemed too pagan to our liberal youth.
You know they suffered from a general onslaught.
And well, if they werent true why keep right on
Saying them like the heathen? We could drop them.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.
“Biography, in its purer form, confined to the ended lives of the true and brave, may be held the fairest meed of human virtueone given and received in entire disinterestednesssince neither can the biographer hope for acknowledgment from the subject, not the subject at all avail himself of the biographical distinction conferred.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)