France And England Quotes

• Lo mejor que conozco entre Francia e Inglaterra es el mar.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Sea, Best Things, Knows

  The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published 1859),'The Anglo-French Alliance'.

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• It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Struggle, Book

  "The Last of the Mohicans". Book by James F. Cooper, 1826.

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• To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U.S., France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.

  Elia Suleiman

  Country, Islamic, Thinking

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• en ese pequeño [tiempo] más grandemente vivió esta estrella de Inglaterra: La fortuna hizo su espada, por la que alcanzó el mejor jardín del mundo y se lo dejó a su hijo señor imperial. Enrique el Sexto, en bandas de infantes coronado Rey de Francia e Inglaterra, sucedió a este Rey; Cuyo estado de tantos tuvo el manejo, Que perdieron a Francia e hicieron sangrar a su Inglaterra.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Stars, Son

  William Shakespeare (1883). “Shakespeare's King Henry V”

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• The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that was a big factor, but the domestic contribution was basically guerrilla warfare.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, World, Revolution

  Fuente: thehumanist.com

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• Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

  Lillian Hellman

  Russia, Class, America

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• I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

  Indira Gandhi

  Moving, Eight, Years

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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