Substitute Public Holiday

Famous quotes containing the words substitute, public and/or holiday:

    “The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God’s ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.”
    —Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)

    “Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)