Quotes About French Resistance

#1. He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.

Coco Chanel

#2. It's a French technique. Soups get screened, and sauces. Forced through a tamis or a chinois. Everything that comes out is smooth and all the rough parts get left behind, thrown away. I don't want to be screened.

Jael McHenry

#3. A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes to pick fights, especially when the odds are all their way.

Stephen King

#4. The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Lee Iacocca

#5. I go over my own escape routes all the time. To survive in this state, you have to think like the French Resistance.

Tim Dorsey

#6. The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

Noam Chomsky

#7. You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.

Dana Brunetti

#8. In my experience, the world's happiest man is a young professor building bookcases.

Wallace Stegner

#9. It wasn't was easy as picking one over the other. Nothing ever was. It wasn't as though I'd even had a choice, not really.

Jenny Han

#10. Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

Martin Mull

#11. My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#12. When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or ... what happened?'

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#13. We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

Siri Hustvedt

#14. Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.

Galeazzo Ciano

#15. Pearl Witherington: SOE Officer Whose Leadership of French Resistance Fighters Was a Thorn in the Side of the Germans

Kathryn J. Atwood

#16. I'm never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be.

Ellen Page

#17. In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.

John Le Carre

#18. Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.

Charles De Gaulle

#19. Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

John Frusciante

#20. They are our brothers, these freedom fighters ... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.

Ronald Reagan

#21. If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Bill Johnson

#22. Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#23. Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

Sara Sheridan

#24. I don't want to be one of those young actors who is around for a couple of years and melts off the scene.

Tuppence Middleton

#25. There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.

Sebastian Vettel