Quotes About England

I think growing up in England strikers are hungry to just get goals. We have a mean streak in us. We like to get goals.

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

When I got the Strictly' job it made sense to come back to England.

Someone on the Scottish side of the family got me one and I never took it off. I would be down the country park playing in a Celtic strip in England.

Iran are very strong because we have many good players playing top-class football in Spain, Germany and England.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

We're very lucky in England: everything's very structured. But in India you have to deal with chaos, and I think that helps dealing with expectation.

I've often said it's not just the level of your opponent: it's can you handle wearing the shirt and playing for England?

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.

People in the U.K. should support who they want to but I would like them to think that playing for England is an option.

Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

I had opportunities in other countries - I never thought about England and Leeds United.

As soon as you come into the England team, the ICC get hold of you; you're put through this video, which is very watchable, very clear - it takes you back to when you were five or six, that's how clear it is. It outlines everything you're not allowed to do, everything you are allowed to do.

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

Outside of my own home, England is my second home.

To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

The paradox, though, was already evident: that the more solidly the foundations of an English state were cemented together, so the harder did it become to present the island as a single realm. Seen in this light, Athelstan's conquest of York, the feat which had first served to project the power of the West Saxon monarchy deep into the north of Britain, can be seen as the decisive event in the making of Scotland as well as of England. There

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

Queen Anne's Gift

But it was not till the Industrial Revolution that wealth creation definitively replaced corruption as the best way to get rich. In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called "corruption") when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich.