Born French Citizen

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

    “I was born upon thy bank, river,
    My blood flows in thy stream,
    And thou meanderest forever
    At the bottom of my dream.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch
    Is offering too little and asking too much.
    The French are with equal advantage content,
    So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”
    —George Canning (1770–1827)

    “While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)