Central American Mission

Famous quotes containing the words central, american and/or mission:

    “But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?—the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world—a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
    —William McKinley (1843–1901)