Feet Quote by Gustave Eiffel Download Open image “The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.” — Gustave Eiffel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feet Flags Staff Tall Thousand
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried. — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
“Consulting de Gaulle whether he should be present at the flag-lowering ceremony or not, Fouchet after a pause of several seconds had been told… — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors. — Bernard Liautaud Copy Share Image
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away? — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Étant la plus saisissante manifestation de l'art des constructions métalliques par lesquelles nos ingénieurs se sont illustrés en Europe, elle est une des formes… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use. — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
“I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.” — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins. — J. R. Celski Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
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