United Nations General

Famous quotes containing the words united nations, united, nations and/or general:

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

    Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.
    Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)

    For nations vague as weed,
    For nomads among stones,
    Small-statured cross-faced tribes
    And cobble-close families
    In mill-towns on dark mornings
    Life is slow dying.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Never alone
    Did the King sigh, but with a general groan.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)