Famous quotes containing the words state and/or pattern:
“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
“Every child has an inner timetable for growth—a pattern unique to him. . . . Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap.”
—Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)