Famous quotes containing the words won, academy and/or award:
“Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.”
—Anastasio Somoza (1896–1956)
“When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)