France Quotes - Page 7

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

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

The question is, we have a particular problem. How many religions are there in the United States? How are they going to get on together? One way, which has been the usual way historically, is to fight it out, as in France in the sixteenth century. That's a possibility.

If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

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

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

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?

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

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

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

France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic; to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

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

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

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

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.

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.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

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

In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

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