Quotes on France

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

Author: Edmond About

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

Author: Robert Altman

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

Author: Keren Ann

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

Author: Matthew Arnold

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

Author: Emily Balch

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

Author: Carla Bley

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

I always knew I would live in France.

Author: Andre Boucourechliev

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.

Author: Poppy Brite

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

Author: Wilfred Burchett

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Author: Wilfred Burchett

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

Author: Jacques Chirac

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Author: Ralph Emerson

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.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

Author: Adolf Galland

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Author: Charles Gaulle

I was France.

Author: Charles Gaulle

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

Author: Charles Gaulle

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

Author: Martha Gellhorn

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

Author: Peter Hall

I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.

Author: Harry Harrison

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Author: Jim Harrison

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

Author: Bernard Hinault

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

Author: Bernard Hinault

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

Author: Edward Hopper

There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

Author: Walid Jumblatt

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

Author: Pierre Laval

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

Author: Bernard Liautaud

I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.

Author: Ernst Lubitsch

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

Author: Adrian Lyne

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

Author: James Monroe

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

Author: John Moody

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

Author: Roger Moore

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

Author: Yannick Noah

We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons.

Author: William Odom

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

Author: Alan Parsons

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

Author: Michel Patini

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

Author: Jean-Marie Pen

France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

Author: Pierre Schaeffer

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

Author: Carly Simon

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

Author: Suzanne Somers

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

Author: Gertrude Stein

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Author: Gertrude Stein

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

Author: Scott Thompson

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

Author: Tracey Ullman

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

Author: Walter Wager