France Quotes

I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

How is it having more control if there are businesses from China, India, America choosing Germany and France over London?

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

France... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq?

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France.

The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.

In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.