Prize Award Ceremony

Famous quotes containing the words prize, award and/or ceremony:

“The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)

“The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)