Famous quotes containing the words supreme and/or convention:
“... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal, has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.