France Quotes - Page 30

• Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

  Thomas Gold Appleton

  Funny, Humorous, Paris

  In Oliver Wendell Holmes 'The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table' (1858) ch. 6

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• If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Humanity, Patriotism

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• It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.

  H. A. L. Fisher

  Christian, Years, Europe

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• I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Daughter, Mother, Different

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

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• 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

  Mom, Mother, Running

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• The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.

  Peter Singer

  Sports, Athlete, Drug Use

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.323, Princeton University Press

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• There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Sacrifice, Boys

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• France lost a great novel last night.

  Victor Hugo

  Sex, Night, Lasts

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• I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.

  Groucho Marx

  Sex, Awards, Government

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• Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute....At the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Government, Forever

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, People, Quality

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Illusion, Economics, Mankind

  The Economic Consequences of the Peace ch. 3 (1919)

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• Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Order, Example

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.37, Cambridge University Press

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• The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason considered the ties of blood as feeble and precarious links of political connection.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blood, Ties, Political

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.117, Coventry House Publishing

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• These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. Littré, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Names, Nomenclature

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• In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and the fields of England. Her richly complex characters walk right off the page and into our imaginations, as we fight with them, farm with them, cook with them. I devoured this dazzling novel.

  Margot Livesey

  Lying, War, Character

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• It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

  Alan Pardew

  Reflection, Europe, Clubs

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• Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.

  Paula McLain

  Paris, Cures

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Opportunity, Done, Path

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• The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Believe, Scientific Method

  "Paris France". Book by Gertrude Stein, p. 8 (in 1970 edition), 1940.

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• Young people want to be famous before they know how to cook, before they know how to treat people, before they know what hospitality means. I stayed in France for seven years and Austria for three, so before I was a chef anywhere I was already cooking for 10 years.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Mean, Years, People

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

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Passionate, Dramatic, Performances

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• The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types of stories that I want to tell. And I feel that just being a female director and doing that is a big deal in this country. On my third movie I worked with a French DP. I asked him has he ever worked with a woman director before? He said in France a third of directors are women; so you can’t avoid them. So I realized that the US is behind.

  Kasi Lemmons

  Country, People, Challenges

  "Interview: Kasi Lemmons & Raphael Saadiq Talk ‘Black Nativity’ – Casting, Soundtrack & More". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2013.

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• I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.

  Rachael Harris

  Fun, Drama, Thinking

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

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• I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.

  Rachael Harris

  Drama, Hollies, Hunters

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

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