France Quotes - Page 6

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

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

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

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!

My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

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

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

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.

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

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

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

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

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

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple.

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

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

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

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

Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies. From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered.

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

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.