France Quotes - Page 6

• The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

  George Clooney

  Running, Government, Pipeline

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Inspirational, Funny, Thinking

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• France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

  Francois Mitterrand

  Opportunity, History, Rehabilitation

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

  Bernard Hinault

  Journey, Cycling, Contact

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• I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, Aggravation, Decline

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

  Pierre Laval

  Agriculture, Want, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Robert Stack

  Cooking, Firsts, Language

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• 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.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Europe, Generations

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• To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

  Edith Piaf

  Successful, People, Language

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• Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Russia, America

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• Does this boat go to Europe, France?

  Anita Loos

  Travel, Europe, Tourism

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• When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

  Lytton Strachey

  Flower, Maturity, Government

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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• You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

  Milos Forman

  England, Sold Out, Happened

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• The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, Childhood, Influence

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• The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Writing, Oddities, Ideas

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• In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

  Manuel Puig

  Country, Writing, People

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• France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Country, Left

  "'The veil? It protects us from ugly women'" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Laughing, May

  William Cowper (1866). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.26

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

  Peter Gavin Hall

  Want, Youth, Contracts

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• Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

  Dave Eggers

  Class, Hello, Wonder

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.441, Vintage

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• In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

  Julia Child

  Sports, Art, Food

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• Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  War, Hunting, Accordions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Television, Saving, Might

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• There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Concentration, Camps, Ten

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• France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Navy, Naval, Treaties

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