Temporary Convention

Famous quotes containing the words temporary and/or convention:

    “The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way—which money could buy ... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.”
    —Theodore Zeldin (b. 1923)

    “Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
    —United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.