Blind American

Famous quotes containing the words blind and/or american:

“It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.”
—Pope Gregory VII (c. 1020–1085)

“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)