Mark Knopfler/early Life 1949-1976

Famous quotes containing the words mark, early and/or life:

    Snobs in pursuit of a mark are more shameless than the sluts of Sodom.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
    —Gerald Early (b. 1952)

    Negro history must be studied, not only because it is the history of over 19 millions, but American life as a whole cannot be understood without knowing it.
    Dorothy Allen Conley (b. 1904)