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Quotes About England

When I was setting out as a kid, five, six, seven years old, England was a dream. One of my best days as a player was my England debut - but it didn't quite happen after that!
~ Michael Carrick
My debut was against England back in 2012.
~ Marco Verratti
In December, every league has a break, but in England, it is not like this.
~ Samir Nasri
The idea of England in decline is very attractive.
~ Martin Parr
It would be great to play in a Scotland side that defeated England. That could be another box ticked off for me.
~ Robert Snodgrass
The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.
~ Noam Chomsky
Does the manager have absolute power in England? No, it depends on a budget and on the executive director that negotiates the signings of players.
~ Rafael Benitez
When I came back to England after my stint with Derby in 1995, I really wanted more time to study coaching.
~ Nick Nurse
I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing over here; there just seems to be more of a culture of developing films than actually making them.
~ David Slade
I got tired of Los Angeles, and I got tired of the game a bit. I wanted to have a different life experience, so I moved to England, and I lived in England for eight years, and I worked there.
~ Neve Campbell
If I'm going to work in Holland I would like to have more of a chance to do something in the league, because a Europa League place might be slightly easier to target than in England.
~ Alan Pardew
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
~ Cara Delevingne
England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in England, and homeopathy has been taught and promoted there for hundreds of years.
~ Dasha Zhukova
I realised my dream of playing for England when I first met Claire Taylor and then Charlotte Edwards at the age of 11. I didn't even know there was an England Women's team until then.
~ Isa Guha
I think Americans have always been pretty outspoken. I always found that if you had emotions in England, it's like, 'Here's a cup of tea.'
~ Rosanna Arquette
I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
~ Gail Carriger
They respect rappers in the U.S., but in England, it's the Queen's country. She'll forever be putting out the message on these BBC networks that there's no hood: it's tea and red phoneboxes.
~ Skepta
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
~ John Milton
I've got friends progressing into the England team and being in the squads. I'd like to think one day I'll have a shot at doing that.
~ Danny Rose
If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.
~ Cesc Fabregas
I have a bad reputation in England, and I don't know why. Maybe it's something that has just followed me. But one thing I always say is that 90% of the people I've played with would say I'm an amazing guy, a great teammate. Other people, those who work on the gate at every stadium I've played at, will tell you I am a humble guy and a nice person.
~ Emmanuel Adebayor
Allied air forces flying from England lost twenty bombers a day in March; another three thousand Eighth Air Force bombers were damaged that month. Morale problems could be seen in the decision of nearly ninety U.S. crews in March and April to fly to neutral countries, usually Sweden or Switzerland, to be interned for the duration. The
~ Rick Atkinson
more than 300 other ships bound for Algeria steamed from anchorages on the Clyde and along England's west coast. For all these vessels to shoot the Strait of Gibraltar in sequence and arrive punctually at various Barbary coast beaches, the
~ Rick Atkinson