French Quote by Gilbert White Download Open image “The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.” — Gilbert White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare French General History I think Natural Natural history Strangely Think
I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant. — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
“Floods are an act of God; flood damages result from the acts of men.” — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time,… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. — Wang Leehom Copy Share Image
It's true, I'm the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesn't care. That's good, because… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Biarritz is one of the most popular holiday destinations in France and it tops the list for coastal resorts along the French Atlantic. — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“La vie c’est comme la bicyclette : quand on arrête de pédaler on tombe.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In 'Bras & Broomsticks,' Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers that her mom and her younger sister, Miri, are… — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
