England Quotes - Page 18

• It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Country, Rome, Years

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• Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Mean, Player, Years

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

  Howard Hodgkin

  Worry, Looks, Surroundings

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• Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

  Thierry Henry

  Baseball, Football, Team

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• If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Japan, Suffering

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• If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Japan, Long Ago

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• If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Writing, Numbers

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• If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

  Townsend Harris

  Desire, Firsts, United States

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• Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later.

  Max Irons

  Years, Coats, Favorites Things

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• I love a good fitted suit. England is known for men who can wear good suits.

  Joe Jonas

  Men, Suits, Known

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• I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

  Peter James

  Book, America, News

  "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from.

  Theo James

  Girlfriend, Believe, Weekend

  "Theo James Talks BEDLAM and UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING". Interview, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

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• You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

  John Mahoney

  Emotional, Boys, Attachment

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• The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

  Dave Beard

  Turkeys, Usa, Evil

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• The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Government, People, Three

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

  Seth Lloyd

  Needs, Want, Information

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• In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

  Andrew Jackson

  Independent, Should Have, Years

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

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

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Night

  "The Armada". Poem by Thomas B. Macaulay, l. 34, 1833.

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• We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Country, Winter, Hands

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• 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.

  Tracey Ullman

  People, Want, States

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• Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.

  James Nasmyth

  Russia, Hammers, Lord

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.221, BoD – Books on Demand

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

  Paula Abdul

  Mad, Disease, Welcome

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• Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

  John Deacon

  Country, Thinking, Albums

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• In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

  Alex Kingston

  Children, Doctors, Shows

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• I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

  Gary Kemp

  Blood, Hot, Celtic

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