Famous quotes containing the words nations, framework and/or convention:
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.