National Memorials

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or memorials:

    Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men’s language. Of course women learn it. We’re not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man’s world, so it talks a man’s language.
    Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    My titillations have no foot-notes
    And their memorials are the phrases
    Of idiosyncratic music.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)