Brien Began

Famous quotes containing the words brien and/or began:

“The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.”
—Alan Brien (b. 1925)

“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)