Quotes About The French Resistance

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Bobbie Ann Mason

#6. 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

#7. Science exacts a substantial entry fee in effort and tedium in exchange for its insights.

Carl Sagan

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

Sara Sheridan

#9. Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea.

Didier Drogba

#10. Sometimes i don't have enough soul in my cheeks to show my face to the world.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#11. Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

Larry Wilcox

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

Kathryn J. Atwood

#13. 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

#14. Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned

Simon Bolivar

#15. I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

Poppy Z. Brite

#16. I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

Lou Doillon

#17. I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.
Robin

Robin McKinley

#18. And the scratches you left on my back remind me just what it felt like to be deep inside you.

Adriane Leigh

#19. The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

Rudolf Arnheim

#20. 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

#21. Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. If I were physically dependent - paralyzed or disabled or limited

Stephen R. Covey

#22. Go on and love yourself, cause everything's gonna be alright.

India.Arie

#23. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

Mother Teresa

#24. 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

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

Coco Chanel