England Quotes

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.

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

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

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.

Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.

As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.

I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England.

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

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

I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

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

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

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

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.