England Quotations | Page 3

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

I had to do a Northern England accent once, and I didn't have much time, so I went and pored through YouTube. There are all sorts of resources out there. The Internet has made that much more affordable. Don't break your neck to spend your money.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.

When I retired in 2006, I stayed for a further two years in England. I stayed because I wanted to be in England without being a footballer, without the rhythm. I wanted to enjoy the city.

Japan cannot conquer China with America in her rear, Soviet Russia on her right and England on her left - her most powerful enemies in the South Sea all flanking her. It is this international situation that constitutes one of Japan's great weaknesses.

I think England are probably not as streetwise as plenty of other teams. The other top teams know how to keep a victory or do certain things to hang on to leads or get back in games. They're a lot more streetwise than us. I think as a nation we are very honest, we try to win the right way.

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

I think the best place to work in football is England.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.

When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.

Oh, to be in England now that April's there.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.

We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while Labour just use the NHS as a political football. We won't let them; we'll always fight for the NHS.

I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

England is one of my favorite places. The fans are just so crazy.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.

I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

In England we are sort of very awkward.

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.

I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It has taken off. We are the number one show in England on E! Who knew?

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.

Until a few years ago, it was never as popular over there as it was here. But by this point, it has been commercialized and is a pretty big celebration in Ireland and England.

We are looking to get counties to play their young England players earlier, and the first reports from the counties are that it is working well. It also helps us to prepare in a better fashion.

We started out in England with a couple of shows, and then in Berlin and then France. It was really amazing. The audiences have been wonderful.