England Quotes · Page 28

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

— Jay Sean

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

— Jim Himes

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

— Peter Shilton

I believe if I was white I would've been England captain for more than 10 years.

— Sol Campbell

It's like I'm held up as some kind of beacon of England - or some bloody British bulldog.

— Helen Baxendale

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you don't play for your club regularly, you won't play for England.

— Darren Bent

We need to go there and make sure we bring that cup home. and if we do succeed, then we'll dedicate it…

— Steven Gerrard

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient…

— William Blake

There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who…

— Frank Lampard

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not…

— Kevin Spacey

I feel the longer he stays at United the better it is for the club. He's done so much for United you…

— Rio Ferdinand

I just want to do the best I can, which means hopefully play for the full England side one day and carry…

— Jack Rodwell

I've played for England; I've been lucky enough to do this for a long time. So why can't you do it with…

— Peter Crouch

There's much more activity in England than in Greece. Or at least there's a lot more development, which obviously brings another set…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English…

— Karl Marx

Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The…

— David Ben-Gurion

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest,…

— Walter Scott

Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I…

— George Washington

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France,…

— G. Edward Griffin

Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt…

— Albert Finney

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people…

— Mitt Romney

Someone from the family is always with me in England, and for me, that's the perfect life.

— David Silva

England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

— Justin Timberlake

I remember, when I arrived in England, a lot of people said that my style of play was not for England.

— Gerard Pique

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

— Naomi Campbell

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

— Dinah Sheridan

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

— James Payn

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put their arm around you at times and…

— Stuart Pearce

Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.

— Niall Ferguson

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

— James Haskell

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

— George Orwell

The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

— Gene Simmons

He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall. (on Peter Crouch)

— Michael Owen

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

— William Shakespeare

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as…

— Oscar Wilde

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

— Mick Jagger