#france

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#government #laugh #nothing #should #were

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#amid #been #called #charming #country

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#destinies #drama #example #explores #for example

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#france #growing #growing up #i #i do

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#because #blame #celebrity #crazy #did

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#child #contemplate #daughter #different #france

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#build #differently #energy #fission #france

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#ago #asked #because #books #both

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#france #harvard #i #lot #me

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#england #europe #france #india #indies