Top 1200 French Army Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin.

It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals.

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it's not true - French food isn't just rich. The word "healthy" doesn't exist in French. We have many, many words, but not that one. To me, healthy means paying close attention to feeding people.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?” she asked Glenna. “Witch.” “So, we’ve got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army.

I supply guns to every army but the Salvation Army.

There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army were adamantly opposed to freeing slaves. We cite these facts and recorded statistics to point out that the principal cause of the war was not the issue of slavery.

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

I'm French, and no one really knows that unless I tell them. So, I can speak French; that's my secret talent.

I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.

As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate that they believe - it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

When I was in school, I used to go to the Pangode army camp, a stone's throw away from where I was staying in Mudavanmugal in Poojapura, just to watch the army parade.

Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those terrorists is like fighting the army of Erdogan, not the Turkish army, the army of Erdogan.

My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.

I was always interested in the army, I wanted to get into the army.

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

If you talk to any senior Army leaders, you'll find one, if not all, their children are in the Army.

That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.

I've never really spoken French. I didn't do French lessons at school, so I'm starting from scratch.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.

I want my army to be an army of the living God.

My father was in the Army. My older brother was in the Army. Those men and women go out there and put their life on the line. I respect that.

Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child. And Marie Souvestre really appreciated Eleanor Roosevelt's talents and encouraged her talents. Also, she spoke perfect French. She grew up speaking French. She's now at a french-speaking school where, you know, girls are coming from all over the world. Not everybody speaks French.

I only know English, so I feel like I can be the dopest French rapper ever if I learned French.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

The Army is a big mixing bowl, and we know that we wear one uniform. We identify with one set of Army values. We serve one Constitution, and we see ourselves as one team.

In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France

Wherever you've got a migrant culture, the food evolves and in New Orleans it's that French and Spanish influence. So you get gumbo, which came out of French bouillabaisse, jambalaya - a version of paella - and the boudin sausage, which is like the French boudin.

Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] are gangs, coming from abroad, infiltrate inhabited areas, kill the people, take their houses, and shoot at the army. The army cannot do the same, and the army doesn't exist everywhere.

I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.

Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

It's a choice of civilization. I will be the president of those French who want to continue living in France as the French do.

With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.

I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture.

I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.

And now she has you seizing control of my army.” “Your army? I thought this was Gaunt’s.” “So did he.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.