American Quote by Cyd Charisse

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.

— Nicole Miller

When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed…

— Joseph Altuzarra

When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as…

— Alice Waters

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they…

— James Weldon Johnson

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless…

— Anonymous

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out…

— Daymond John

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

— Sam Walton

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

— Robert Crumb

I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't…

— Daniel Boulud

I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.

— Stephen Shore

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks,…

— Craig Brown

If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style…

— Tom Ford