Famous quotes containing the words national, convention and/or held:
“Just so before we’re international,
We’re national and act as nationals.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.
“So that this beautiful realm of hers was held in her mind extended, or lengthened: it had been finite, bounded, known utterly and in every detail, self-enclosed ... but now it lapped and rippled out and upwards beyond there into hinterlands that were like unknown possibilities in her own mind.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
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