National Standard

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or standard:

“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)

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)