National Convention Held

Famous quotes containing the words national, convention and/or held:

    “The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-West for it. Nor yet wholly to them.... The job was a great national one.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
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    “You held my hand
    and were instant to explain
    the three rings of danger.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)