Famous quotes containing the words national, cross and/or country:
“Just so before we’re international,
We’re national and act as nationals.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,—why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,—that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
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