Born French Citizen

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

    “Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs. But you must have the believing and prophetic eye.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “An old French sentence says, “God works in moments,”M”En peu d’heure Dieu labeure.” We ask for long life, but ‘t is deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.”
    —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)