National Camp Meeting

Famous quotes containing the words national, camp and/or meeting:

“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the “tough guy;” today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

“Men consort in camp and town
But the poet dwells alone.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)