Born British

Famous quotes containing the words born and/or british:

“When you’re born you don’t bring it with you; when you die you can’t take it with you.”
—Chinese proverb.

“In New York—whose subway trains in particular have been “tattooed” with a brio and an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame—not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.... Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the “haves.””
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. “Cleaning and Cleansing,” Myths and Memories (1986)