Civil State Award

Famous quotes containing the words civil, state and/or award:

    A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.
    Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 2 (1962)

    Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
    Robert Graves (1895–1985)