Famous quotes containing the words present and/or convention:
“We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.