Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or pattern:
“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)