National Animal

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or animal:

“The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”
—Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961)