Born French Citizen

Famous quotes containing the words born, french and/or citizen:

    “His awful skin
    stretched out by some tradesman
    is like my skin, here between my fingers,
    a kind of webbing, a kind of frog.
    Surely when first born my face was this tiny
    and before I was born surely I could fly.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.”
    —Robert H. [Houghwout] Jackson (1892–1954)