Famous quotes containing the words american and/or zone:
“The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)