Famous quotes containing the words born and/or polish:
“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.”
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)