National Primitive Baptist

Famous quotes containing the words national, primitive and/or baptist:

    “Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.”
    —Paul West (b. 1930)

    “We have as yet had no adequate account of a primitive pine forest.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)