Minor

Minor may refer to:

  • Minor (law), an underage child
  • Academic minor, a secondary focus of an undergraduate degree
  • Minor v. Happersett, a case appealed to the US Supreme Court concerning the right to vote

Read more about Minor:  Mathematics, Surname, Sports, Vehicles, Geography, Arts and Culture, Biology

Famous quotes containing the word minor:

    “People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.”
    —Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (1853–1917)

    “There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.”
    —Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)