Georgia World Congress

Famous quotes containing the words georgia, world and/or congress:

    Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.
    Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    We admire a woman for the courage to show herself to the world as she is, and in the end it’s the courage we find attractive.
    New Yorker (April 30, 1990)

    Such is the labor which the American Congress exists to protect,—honest, manly toil,—honest as the day is long,—that makes his bread taste sweet, and keeps society sweet,—which all men respect and have consecrated; one of the sacred band, doing the needful but irksome drudgery.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)