Famous quotes containing the words french and/or bread:
“I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“I who take here
my bread and life
and sweep the temple,
still I swear
that I would save you,
birds or spirits.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)