England Quotes - Page 35

• In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

  Marc Newson

  Strong, Japan, Europe

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• In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful research projects.

  Rene Dubos

  Meaningful, Running, Dark

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• Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.

  Davy Jones

  Couple, Race, Weather

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• An earnest conjuration from the King,
  As England was his faithful tributary,
  As love between them like the palm might flourish,
  As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
  And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
  And many such-like as's of great charge,
  That, on the view and knowing of these contents,
  Without debatement further, more or less,
  He should the bearers put to sudden death,
  Not shriving time allow'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Love Is, Views

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections & illustrations of various commentators”, p.263

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• England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'

  Joey Barton

  Football, Stupid, Book

  "Barton: fans are vicious, misled and shocking" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2007.

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• Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Israel, People

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• When I announced on my Facebook page that I'm coming to Israel, people started telling me that I shouldn't go there, but I figured that if I'm not going to come here, then I guess I can't go back to the United States anymore and I can never go to Russia again and I should probably never go back to Germany and I should probably never go back to France and I should probably never go back to England....All I see here is a really beautiful city.

  John Grant

  Beautiful, Cities, Russia

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• Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.

  Johan Huizinga

  Hero, Men, Battle

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• I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

  Roger Taylor

  Hiking, Target, Midwest

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• Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

  Tobias Wolff

  Change, Opportunity, People

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• When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

  Terri Windling

  Love, Girl, Passion

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• Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Peace, War, Blessed

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• Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

  Terri Windling

  New York, Technology, Impact

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• England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.

  Frederic Chopin

  Country, Piano, People

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• England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.

  Frederic Chopin

  Morning, Flower, Night

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• But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

  Goldwin Smith

  Running, Hype, Mind

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

  Keith Henson

  Iceland, Generations, France

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• The weather in England can really darken your spirits.

  Claire Forlani

  Weather, Spirit

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• You know, nobody eats in England. three or four pints of english beer a night fills you. i can’t say i’m very impressed with the food in America. it’s all sort of bland. like turkey sandwiches.

  Anne Dudley

  Beer, Night, Turkeys

  Interview with Kurt von Finck, blogs.gnome.org. October 14, 2004.

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• My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

  Garrison Keillor

  Law, America, Puritan

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 30 Mar. 1990

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• The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic.

  Ezra Pound

  America, Perception, Trying

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• I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

  Jilly Cooper

  Class System, People, Mind

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• There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

  Jilly Cooper

  Praying, Workshops, Nations

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.344, Random House

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• The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

  Martha Grimes

  Memories, Romance, Inns

  Martha Grimes (2013). “The Man with a Load of Mischief”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Tables, Dinner, Might

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