Born French Citizen

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

    “And am I born to die?
    To lay this body down?
    And must my trembling spirit fly
    Into a world unknown?”
    —Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

    “Salad is roughage and a French idea.”
    —U.S. grandmother. As quoted in “Once a Tramp, Always ...,” by M.F.K. Fisher (1969)

    “Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)