Born French Citizen

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

    “States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.”
    —Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)

    “If you should put a knife into a French girl’s learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee ...”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)