Famous quotes containing the words musical and/or convention:
“There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader’s boat.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.