French Heritage Quotes

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.

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

I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'

You do not understand the honor of France!

The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I was born with was French: D'Orsay; perhaps an ancestor was amongst those troops that marched to this evocative anthem for the first time as they entered Paris 200 years ago!

'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.

What unites us is an unconditional love for France.

Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie - father of the future Alex Dumas - was born on February 26, 1714, in the Norman province of Caux, a region of rolling dairy farms that hung above great chalk cliffs on the northwest coast of France.

Nothing could be more French than pastry.

Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

The French nation is more important than football.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!

I adore the tapestries at the Musee de Cluny in Paris!

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

The day France remembers that she was and must be the salvation of the human race, when she gathers her children about her and teaches them France as faith and religion, that day she will once again be alive, and as firm as the earth itself.