France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
Raoul Dufy
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we'll end up being the France of the 21st century.
MITT ROMNEY In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. T...
ELIZABETH PEYTON Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Re...
VICTOR HUGO Wiretapping has a long history of enthusiastic use in France.
STEWART BAKER Apple now has to either open up or close down [in France].
ALEXANDER ROSS What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. -Raoul Dufy.
RAOUL DUFY What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century Americ...
FRANK CROWNINSHIELD France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
THOMAS CARLYLE France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
JULIA CHILD Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.
GOERAN GENTELE France has noticed a light, or gradual, evolution in the American position.
DENIS SIMONNEAU My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collec...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)
CHARLES DE GAULLE Up until the mid-19th century serving refreshments and socializing on the stoops was done by every i...
CHARLES LOCKWOOD Although it is hard to see why any sensible authority would feel threatened by the peaceful expressi...
NAZANIN BONIADI Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.
CARLY SIMON I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from overt...
ALBISSATY ALLAZAM France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from overt...
ALBISSATY SALEH ALLAZAM I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of...
JOSCHKA FISCHER I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents...
BONNIE MCKEE France has more need of me than I have need of France.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with ...
EMMANUELLE BEART This is a political decision because of pressure from France ... France has fraudulently interpreted...
MARTIN BESIEUX It's wonderful, elegant taste. It's a beautiful collection of American, 19th-century and Impressioni...
DAVID NORMAN In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it fo...
ALAIN DUCASSE Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they wer...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French ...
MARIO MONTI My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONET I picked him up in a gutter, and saved him for France.
LUCIE UTRILLO It was true in the 19th century, and it's true today.
LAWRENCE M. OTTER For far too many people, 19th century working and living standards will continue unchanged into the ...
BILL JORDAN François Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly independent nati...
JACQUES ATTALI At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with...
KAREN ARMSTRONG I love France. France is a nice place.
BUBBA WATSON I was France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything...
NICK CLEGG Any German chancellor has to have close relations with France, ... Merkel will have a close relation...
KARSTEN VOIGT There was a misunderstanding with France and the French,
CRAIG STAPLETON Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the
more.
[Fr., Il n'y a rien de change ...
COMTE D'ARTOIS (LATER CHARLES X) In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty i...
DOUGLAS SIRK Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Every time I have [played against France], I have played inside centre. But still, because he is the...
MATT GITEAU France has a tradition in the fight between David and Goliath of protecting the little guy. France i...
FRANCOIS G. LAUGIER I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices y...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He bel...
GEORGE W. TRUETT One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movem...
KATE FORSYTH François Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly i...
JACQUES ATTALI France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against t...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH Until 2005, France had the only senior Catholic prelate in modern times who was born Jewish and stil...
TOM REISS France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
GAVIN BRYARS We made the change for the France game but playing Australia it's right to go back to Tindall. He is...
CLIVE WOODWARD France is great because she is France.
VICTOR HUGO I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
YOGI BERRA I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
STEPHEN SPROUSE In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
ALAN PARSONS Every man has two countries, his own and France.
HENRI DE BORNIER Every man has two countries, his own and France
HENRI DE BORNIER The specialty egg segment has grown dramatically in the last eight or nine years.
ALAN ANDREWS This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France'...
BERNARD PIVOT Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym ...
JANUARY JONES The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarc...
NEIL POSTMAN Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century stor...
JANE AUSTEN Edgeworth has been the foremost economist in England during the latter part of the 19th century and ...
LUDWIG VON MISES The ultimate goal is enhancing the appreciation on the part of the marketplace to 19th century Ameri...
HANK MARTIN When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family wor...
BERNARD ARNAULT In France, the auditions and the plays aren't good, they're too laid back. And I remember in the Lon...
EVA GREEN Unhappy France! Unhappy King!
[Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!]
ETIENNE BEQUET It will be like riding in the Tour de France. We've got hills, time trials, road races and wind. Of ...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER Eric Manly, a senior captain, was in France for a school trip.
ERICKA FANGIULLO I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I ...
MOIRA KELLY I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was...
STEPHANIE PERKINS The France that gets up early to go to work in the morning
NICOLAS SARKOZY I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA It is the fortune of France.
[Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]
NICEPHORUS France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE France isn't a country that's massively racist. There's an enormous amount of mixing that occurs in ...
DOMINIQUE SOPO There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time...
TWYLA THARP I was born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, orig...
CLAUDE COHEN-TANNOUDJI They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroe...
GERHARD SCHROEDER We've had them up to eight and nine pounds. But they were eight to nine years old, too. Normal brown...
CLYDE WELSH Commitments have been made and France will live up to them.
JACQUES CHIRAC Dogs smoke in France
OZZY OSBOURNE France sees China as an important part of that. China and France have declared a strategic partnersh...
ADAM SEGAL But Russia are strong with or without Safin, they beat France without him in the quarterfinals and D...
MARIO ANCIC I'm looking forward to France, ... France has been really good to me the last three years, I've been...
ANDY IRONS One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century...
CLEMENT ATTLEE According to the Koran and the Hadith, aggressive warfare for the purpose of imposing Islam on the w...
BRIGITTE GABRIEL The painting was only outside France once, in 1955, when it was in a Giorgione exhibition in Venice.
DAVID BROWN After that I will go straight to France and join my team. Honestly, one should not compare the socce...
FAISAL KHALIL I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I wa...
JACKY IDO I was never going 'I want a big car and a house in France' and all that,
ARABELLA WEIR They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!
STEPHANIE PERKINS France will catch Spain up and possibly go beyond it by 2008.
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