Represent Parallel Notions

Famous quotes containing the words represent, parallel and/or notions:

“It seemed monstrous to our intolerant youth that “poor white folksy” men should have an equal right with gentlemen, born and bred, in deciding who should represent the county in the Legislature and the district in Congress.”
—Marion Harland (1830–1922)

“The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas—uncertainty, progress, change—into crimes.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)