A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

Benjamin Franklin

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America Inquire Stranger

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

Anton Chekhov

We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Deb Caletti

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

Claire McCaskill

Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!

Stephen Sondheim

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

Richard Cobden

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

Saadi

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

Billy Sunday

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

Simon Cowell

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Truman Capote

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

Robert Fulghum

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

Zygmunt Bauman

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

Kenneth Oppel

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

Barack Obama

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.