Famous quotes containing the words french and/or mirage:
“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)
“Whom we desired above all things to know,
Sister of the mirage and echo.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)