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Quotes about France


Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Care is the ingredient that keeps true friendships alive despite separation, distance, or time. Care gives latitude to another person and gets you past the dislikes and annoyances. Quite simply, caring sustains love. Doc Childre and Sara Paddison, HeartMath Discovery Program Are there certain friends you turn to when you have a problem or need to be listened to? Think about this: - Are they compassionate, understanding and nurturing? - Are they totally present, giving you their undivided attention? - Do they try to solve your problems for you or do they help you to get clarity so that you can solve your own problems? - Do they let you talk until you're done? Chances are the people you turn to for support and understanding are good listeners. You can develop these qualities as well and take them even deeper into "essence understanding" through mastering deep heart listening. James Allen In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Frances Ward Weller -Sara Paddison.

Sara Paddison

Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled Out of the powerful legions under earth, Help me this once, that France may get the field.

William Shakespeare

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Francois Mitterrand

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.

Mary Frances Berry

Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo. Red cataracts of France to-day Awake, three thousand miles away, An echo of Niagara The cataract of Niagara.

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

William Alexander Percy

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein

Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!]

Etienne Bequet

St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."

Old Song

The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.

Unattributed Author

The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La cordiale entente qui existe entre le gouvernement francais et celui de la Grande-Bretagne.]

Unattributed Author

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

William Shakespeare

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the world.

Unattributed Author

We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.

Alexander Pope

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

Pierre Jean de Beranger

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