Famous quotes containing the words clover, moore, member and/or parliament:
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“is an enchanted thing
like the glaze on a
katydid-wing”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.”
—Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)
“What is the historical function of Parliament in this country? It is to prevent the Government from governing.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)