Famous quotes containing the words custom and/or generation:
“How but in custom and in ceremony
Are innocence and beauty born?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
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