England Quotes - Page 7

• It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England.

  Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

  Country, Agency, Patriot

  "Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary". Book by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, p. 145-6, 1972.

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• There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Sports, Responsibility, Doe

  "Gerrard sounds clarion call", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2005.

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• I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

  Rio Ferdinand

  " Eriksson drops Campbell as Ferdinand fights his way back" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2005.

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• I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

  Peter Shilton

  Years, Goal, Settings

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• In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.

  George Mikes

  Country, Clever, Self

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Important, Beckham

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• Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

  John Pople

  Pain, Regret, Decision

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• When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Found

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• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  Patrick Stewart

  Kings, Irritation, Years

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• Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

  Walter Scott

  Dragons, Saint George, Castles

  Walter Scott (2016). “Ivanhoe, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.1”, p.297, VM eBooks

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• I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.

  Ricky Gervais

  Running, America, World

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• Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color of these worlds. Searing light and intense color seemed somehow embedded in the cultures that I had begun working in, so utterly different from the gray-brown reticence of my New England background. Since then, I have worked predominantly in color.

  Alex Webb

  Emotional, Light, Color

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• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Stars, Soul

  1802 'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour', complete poem (published 1807).

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• . . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change-against change in the abstract-is folly.

  James A. Michener

  Life, Jobs, Men

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• New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end. . . . It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Life, Destiny, Civilization

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• If England was what England seems,
  An not the England of our dreams,
  But only putty, brass, an' paint,
  'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dream, Paint, Brass

  "The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling".

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• But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Military, Power, Sea

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• To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U.S., France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.

  Elia Suleiman

  Country, Islamic, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

  Washington Irving

  Morning, Book, Home

  Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)”, p.172

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• I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Years, Alarmists, Environmentalist

  "The Doomslaye" by Ed Regis, www.wired.com. February 1, 1997.

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• England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

  Fred Trueman

  Mother, Country, Wonder

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• My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.

  Rudolf Hess

  Mother, Children, Eye

  "Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace". Book by Ilse Hess, 1982.

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• What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Men, Competition

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• As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Secret

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• At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States

  Hideki Tojo

  War, United States, December

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