French Colonial Quotes

#1. While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

Eliot Engel

#2. In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts

Sunday Adelaja

#3. You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

Andrew Forrest

#4. At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

Wislawa Szymborska

#5. Seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#6. This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

William Law

#7. I like to do a couple of yoga classes during the week. Yoga for me is more of an elongating thing.

Jessica Biel

#8. Christ, don't you ever knock?
It's Lassiter. L-A-S-S-I-T-E-R. How is it possible you're still getting me confused with someone else? Do I need a nametag?

J.R. Ward

#9. During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#10. AMBITION MAKES MORE TRUSTY SLAVES THAN NEED

Ben Jonson

#11. Authority to dream is not given, it is taken. Take it. Do not let the judgment of others be the final word. Without a doubt, if there is a one-word, one-step cure for bad peg moments, that word is perseverance. Let that be your final word.

J. Loren Norris

#12. Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#13. She lived too close to despair to have any strength left for self-knowledge. She might have been able to acknowledge herself unloved but to know herself unloving was beyond her strength.

Elizabeth Goudge

#14. British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to

Stephen E. Ambrose

#15. I was diagnosed with paranoia for fear of never smoking weed again.

Eddie Bravo

#16. I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.

Alex Pettyfer

#17. Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

David Morrissey

#18. Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

Minnie Driver

#19. After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.

Gore Vidal