Famous quotes containing the words professor and/or carter:
“This unlettered mans speaking and writing are standard English. Some words and phrases deemed vulgarisms and Americanisms before, he has made standard American; such as It will pay. It suggests that the one great rule of compositionand if I were a professor of rhetoric I should insist on thisis, to speak the truth. This first, this second, this third; pebbles in your mouth or not. This demands earnestness and manhood chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Bystanders paused. I blabbed my name.
He frowned. Naw, that aint it, he said.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)