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Quotes About France

To be in the France team means they have a number of duties and responsibilities.
~ Didier Deschamps
I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.
~ John Howe
All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what makes good art.
~ Adam Granduciel
I only wrote one diary to be read by others. I went on an exchange to France, working as an au pair, when I was 14 and in a battered red notebook I wrote my experiences for my father to read later.
~ Sheila Hancock
Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.
~ Rosecrans Baldwin
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
~ Nicolas Sarkozy
I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.
~ Ernst Lubitsch
I'm very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my career in Paris, even though I don't live there anymore.
~ Cecile de France
In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
~ Karen Hughes
We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.
~ Mathieu Kassovitz
France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch.
~ Rosecrans Baldwin
I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!
~ Barbara Fialho
For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.
~ Bill Buford
There are no nail salons in Paris - it is very expensive to do a manicure. I sometimes get one done.
~ Lea Seydoux
As much as I believe in the Franco-German partnership, I question the idea of a duopoly. European construction is based on a well-balanced and respectful partnership between France and Germany.
~ Francois Hollande
There is every reason to believe that, when the coming Revolution takes place, Germany will go further than France went in 1793.
~ Peter Kropotkin
Moitessier very quickly wrote another book, his second, about their voyage, Cap Horn à la voile (titled in English: Cape Horn: The Logical Route), which was published in time for France's premier boat show, the Salon Nautique. It became a huge best-seller.
~ Peter Nichols
are favorable to the political system; apathetic or detached when feelings and evaluations are neutral; and alienated when such feelings and evaluations are unfavorable.21 Italy and France have been cited as examples of political cultures that generate alienation and a large measure of
~ Philip Norton
France says no to the despair which pushes towards violence those deprived of any other way to make themselves heard. It says no to the attitude which tramples underfoot public freedoms only to outlaw afterwards those who take up arms to defend those freedoms.
~ Philip Short
I would visit my father and spend the summers with him in the south of France.
~ Yasmin Aga Khan
There are so many places I have visited which are unusual, but the ones my family and I tend to always go back to are those in Europe, particularly France and Italy.
~ Penny Lancaster
In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.
~ Simon McBurney
I will protect and defend France's vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe.
~ Emmanuel Macron