National Convention Held

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

    “As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
    —United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.

    “I held my breath
    and daddy was there,
    his thumbs, his fat skull,
    his teeth, his hair growing
    like a field or a shawl.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)