Milton Wright

Milton Wright may refer to:

  • Milton Wright (bishop) (1828–1917), father of the Wright brothers
  • Milton Wright (academic), American academic who studied in Germany

Famous quotes containing the words milton and/or wright:

    Towards him they bend
    With awful reverence prone; and as a God
    Extoll him equal to the highest in Heav’n:
    Nor fail’d they to express how much they prais’d,
    That for the general safety he despis’d
    His own: for neither do the Spirits damn’d
    Loose all thir vertue; lest bad men should boast
    Thir specious deeds on earth, which glory excites,
    Or close ambition varnisht o’er with zeal.
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)