French National Sayings

#1. Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country ... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.

Hristo Stoichkov

#2. I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

Thierry Henry

#3. I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

#4. I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.

Selena Gomez

#5. were something he'd always associated with old women who had more money than sense. To see them on this little blonde who obviously had dirty plans on her mind? Yeah, it did things for him.

Katee Robert

#6. For every man must have somewhere to turn ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.

Orson Scott Card

#8. The spectacle of this lovely nation, with its great agricultural wealth and its cultural riches , continually stepping on its own toes, made me wonder if France suffered a kind of national neurosis

Julia Child

#9. None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

Colin Powell

#10. These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

Edward Sapir

#11. The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. CAMILLE DESMOULINS: For the establishment of liberty and the safety of the nation, one day of anarchy will do more than ten years of National Assemblies.

Hilary Mantel

#13. Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

Cyril Cusack

#14. While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money they have, are worried. They're a very stressed people. It seems to be a very essential component of the national psyche.

Jonathan Meades

#15. I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, that kind of thing.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#16. You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains ... It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?

Gordon Bethune

#17. Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

Sara Sheridan

#18. The French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

Alice B. Toklas

#19. Vichy emerged not only from what divided the French but also what united them: pacifism, fear of population decline, loss of confidence in national identity, anti-Semitism, discontent with existing political institutions, ambivalence about modernity. The existence of this common

Julian T. Jackson

#20. Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#21. Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.

Christian De Duve

#22. Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.

Bob Hope

#23. The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#24. A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

Ross Kemp

#25. Charlie Hebdo has been sued a good dozen times by the General Alliance against Racism and for Respect of French and Christian Identity (AGRIF), an organization of Catholic fundamentalists who long maintained close ties with the National Front.

Charb

#26. Do you realize how few ever really understand how fortunate they are in their circumstances?

R.K. Narayan

#27. There's no Coastguard in France. They let the French Navy do it. They have to give them something to do. It's not good for national pride to have to disband it so they turned it into a Coastguard. I think it does a few other bits and bobs too.

Tim FitzHigham

#28. That is so personal, and it's my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it's always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?

Zooey Deschanel