England Quotes
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England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.
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The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding
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I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.
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The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)
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I'm an England fan and I have struggled to comprehend how, from 1990 when we came so close to reaching the final, we have never kicked on from there. I thought we would but we never have.
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France, England, Ireland and Wales are all strong opposition, especially at home. It will be a challenging tour.
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I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.
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England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.
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I am the photographer of the de-industrial revolution in England. I didn’t set out to be this. It’s what happened during the time I was photographing.
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We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.
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I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!
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We were more fortunate than most, because Bernard Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to travel from America back to England with him on the same boat. It was a very slow boat. I think it took us about seven days to cross the Atlantic.
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An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
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I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.
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The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.
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There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
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I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.
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In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.
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The problem England have got is that if they don't win the group they will play the French and if they play them, they will be beaten.
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In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They've got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.
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George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.
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None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.
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I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play.
