#france

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#had #i #might #saving #television

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#country #france #habit #into #marry

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#felt #france #home #i #more

In France, history is paralyzing. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#history

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

#distinguished #france #french #lack #never

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. ↗

— James A. Michener

#america #china #country #creative #creative expression

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. ↗

— Roger Moore

#called #does #excellent #favourite #favourite place

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain. ↗

— Amos Oz

#arabs #blaming #britain #clear #crystal

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#france #hears #lot #nobody #outside

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#apprenticeship #butter #end #everything #forth