Quotes About England

When I came to England, everyone told me that I'd get the hits, so I was prepared for that.

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

I've always got a home in England. My family and friends are there. It's a place I hold very close to me.

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

Strikers in England get less time than in Holland, and it took me a while to get used to that.

We have got to build more affordable homes in the south of England, we've just got to.

Getting the opportunity to captain England is a huge honour - even if it's only the once you can still say 'yeah, I've captained England.'

It has always been an honour to play for England.

I've always said that when you pull on an England shirt, it's a proud moment, and it's an honour to play for and represent your country.

I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.

People have the right to support who they want of course but I'm hoping in the future maybe they or their kids will become England fans and players.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

England's full of cricket tradition. I follow the game there hugely.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.

unemployment was not a mark of the lazy man; that the beggar did not beg because he would not work; that had once been the case in the England he knew best, but things were different now.

Orphaned daughters of a well-to-do English officer in the Imperial Army Medical Service, Dorothea was born in Trichinopoli, India, Claire in London. And though schooled in Switzerland, England, and France and well traveled, the sisters, especially Claire, exhibited a childlike naïveté and innocence that sometimes left them a target of manipulation by those with dubious intentions.

The contribution of Anthony William Greig to English cricket has been underestimated because of his allegiance to Kerry Packer and his choice to recruit players for World Series Cricket while still the England captain. His critics hold that as a black mark against him, which rules out anything else he may have done.

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

Winston Churchill inspired my leadership philosophy. I've read a huge number of his writings, especially his diaries from the Second World War. His thoughts on leadership and duty have helped me as England captain.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II. I grew up with bomb sites everywhere.

Manchester City have been the best side in England over the course of the last decade. Coming here is a dream for me. This is a top side full of world-class players. Everywhere you look in this squad there are big names with international pedigree.