Charles de Gaulle/prime Minister of France 1944-1946

Famous quotes containing the words gaulle, prime, minister and/or france:

    How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
    —Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)

    Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? What do you do after that? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
    Wilma Rudolph (1940–1994)

    [T]he minister preached a sermon on Jonah and the whale, at the end of which an old chief arose and declared, “We have heard several of the white people talk and lie; we know they will lie, but this is the biggest lie we ever heard.”
    —Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Springtime for Hitler and Germany,
    Winter for France and Poland.
    Mel Brooks (b. 1926)