America Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“the concept, going back to the misty foundations of the nation, that France was the land of the free—that no one should be kept…

— Tom Reiss

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was…

— Aldous Huxley

“I pitied the French for their naivete in believing that they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“In reality, France's American territory extended to the west as far as a Frenchman could go without getting shot by a Spaniard, and likewise…

— Mark Stein

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful…

— John James Audubon

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was…

— Michael Shaara

There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with…

— Janine di Giovanni

Those who came to France came to find France, not to turn it into their country of origin. If that's what they wanted, they…

— Marine Le Pen

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

— Pierre Dukan

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

— Janine di Giovanni