England Quotes · Page 35

England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

— John Burroughs

I'm going to say it out loud: I'm available for England selection if they serve chicken for pre-match.

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

— Alfred Douglas

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.

— Lou Doillon

When you become England manager, the change in profile and interest in what you're doing is on another level.

— Gareth Southgate

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international…

— Steven Gerrard

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

— Margaret Halsey

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

— William Shakespeare

“The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a…

— Michelle Cooper

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race…

— Josiah Strong

In England, people get bored very quickly. People aren't satisfied with one thing. You can have hits, but to stay there you…

— Curt Smith

Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past…

— Ted Hughes

England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the…

— William Godwin

In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is…

— George Mikes

But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed…

— Juliette Binoche

Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in…

— Peter Padfield

Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or…

— John Adams

People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank…

— Katharine Whitehorn

I don't feel that Chinese designers have reached the level of prominence that European or American designers have, but we've noticed in…

— Anna Wintour

“I once had every hope,’ he says. ‘The world corrupts me, I think. Or perhaps it's just the weather. It pulls me…

— Hilary Mantel

I think we have to find somebody out there to beat New England besides us, and I think that would help. Anybody…

— Rex Ryan

When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting…

— Dan Jenkins

For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay…

— Susan Brigden

Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you've got to stick together as a team.

— Michael Owen

In England, if one wicket falls, you get two or three in a cluster.

— Ravindra Jadeja

He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)

— Bill Shankly

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

— Janet Montgomery

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time.

— Jamie Redknapp

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.

— Anonymous

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

— Washington Irving

I had only one year in England and had not such a good time. Two times, I was out eight weeks with…

— Jerome Boateng

I watch every game in the Premier League and I like the ambience and culture of football in England.

— Fabio Cannavaro

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

To preserve my sanity I had to leave England and move to New York.

— Curt Smith

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

— Chris O'Dowd

I'm not going to say something I shouldn't. In that way, I was probably the perfect guy to play in New England.

— Logan Mankins

God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him. (on Michael Owen)

— Graeme Souness

Every striker from England I know is the same; they're greedy and they want to get goals.

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.

— Kevin Keegan