England Quotes - Page 17

• But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

  Lily Allen

  Daughter, Song, Dad

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

  Monica Ali

  Children, Writing, Holiday

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• I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

  Alan Bradley

  Book, Grandmother, Great Love

  "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". Interview with Noreen O'Donnell, www.reuters.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

  Alan Bradley

  Growing Up, Tired, Talking

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• Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Growing Up, Legends, Arthurian Legend

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• I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding school, and I went to a few different ones in Australia as well. I'm really lucky! I have friends in most countries.

  Alice Englert

  Country, School, Australia

  "Alice Englert Spills 'Beautiful Creatures' Secrets!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. February 7, 2013.

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• The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Entertainers, Hard

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• I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

  Rupert Everett

  Choices, Done, Stuff

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• I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover.

  Rupert Everett

  Animal, England And America, Political

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• Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

  Rupert Friend

  Growing Up, Home, California

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Four guys from England took us all by the hand.

  John Fogerty

  Hands, Guy, Four

  Song: I Saw It On T.V, Album: Centerfield

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• And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Trust, Kings, Dust

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

  W. H. Auden

  Fall, Science, Garden

  'Look, Stranger!' (1936) no. 1

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• God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Scotland, Helping

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3448, e-artnow

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• And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?

  David Brewster

  Depressing, Art, Struggle

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• Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

  Jane Campion

  Acting, Television, Littles

  "Anna Makes It a Family Business / Jane Campion's sister's debut film is `Loaded'" by Mick La Salle, www.sfgate.com. April 17, 1996.

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• I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

  Jane Campion

  People, Personality, Style

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.156, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

  Richard Dawson

  War, Color, Europe

  "Family Feud". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1976 - 1985).

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• The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Numbers, Women's Suffrage, Firsts

  Millicent Fawcett (2017). “Women's Suffrage”, p.39, Litres

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• My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

  Matthew William Goode

  Country, Dream, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

  Stephen Gardiner

  War, Rose, Conflict

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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

  Steven Gerrard

  Coaching, Break, Badges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

  Alister Hardy

  Heart, Mind, Church

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• There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

  Charlie Haden

  Nice, Boston, People

  "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.

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• I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter.

  Freddie Highmore

  Thinking, Weather, Hot

  Interview with Steave Head, www.ign.com. July 15, 2005.

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