Quotes by Early, Gerald

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the gran >>

The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our >>

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 y >>

Quotations about Awards

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than >>

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received thei >>

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, fe >>

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald