Famous quotes containing the words national and/or trail:
“The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigners visit to Congressthese, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.”
—Mary McCarthy (19121989)
“Most of us dont have mothers who blazed a trail for usat least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the womens movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrumswhat should they be? how should they act?that became our uncertainties.”
—Anne Roiphe (20th century)