Famous quotes containing the words mission, air, movement and/or table:
“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)
“The air split into nine levels,
Some gift of tongues of the whistler”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)