Primitive Baptist Convention

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

“[How] the young . . . can grow from the primitive to the civilized, from emotional anarchy to the disciplined freedom of maturity without losing the joy of spontaneity and the peace of self-honesty is a problem of education that no school and no culture have ever solved.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)

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

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