United States Academic

Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or academic:

    “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1954)

    “I think those Southern writers [William Faulkner, Carson McCullers] have analyzed very carefully the buildup in the South of a special consciousness brought about by the self- condemnation resulting from slavery, the humiliation following the War Between the States and the hope, sometimes expressed timidly, for redemption.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)