England Quotes · Page 38

“In many ways, England was home to the first modern Jewish community in the world.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

To play in England is a dream, but sometimes, dreams do not come true.

— Serge Aurier

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

— Sydney Brenner

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

— Jim Henson

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

— Zinedine Zidane

In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

— Jamie Oliver

Tottenham are a beautiful club, a traditional club in England.

— Vincent Janssen

I've been in England for a while, but it's true that at times you miss home, your family, your friends.

— Juan Mata

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an…

— Elizabeth I

If you had told me as a kid that I'd be playing at Old Trafford, which is sold out for England in…

— Leah Williamson

I don't think there have been many dull celebrations after any of my hundreds for England. It's been an emotional time for…

— Jonny Bairstow

The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in…

— Ishmael Reed

I lived in England for a long time, and even the English didn't think me as one of theirs. In America I'm…

— Andrew Niccol

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to…

— Wilfrid Laurier

I'd like to manage in England at some point. My wife wouldn't like the weather; she's from Barcelona and likes the sun.…

— Luis Enrique

I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch…

— Ed Speleers

Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I…

— Roma Downey

When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started…

— Charlotte Rampling

“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years…

— Andrew Coster

For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should)…

— James Gleick

I was always told that the Premier League would suit my playing style, and England has always attracted me. Ever since I…

— Radamel Falcao

It was pretty fun [auditioning on the Millennium Falcon], because I enjoyed the material a lot. Last year I read for the…

— Alden Ehrenreich

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.…

— Oscar Wilde

When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld…

— William Carey

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

— Anonymous

In England, the fans are more spectators than supporters. There's a better atmosphere in French stadiums.

— Alexandre Lacazette

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

— Walter Raleigh

There are a lot of people in England with good football knowledge.

— Fernandinho

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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Michael Owen

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

— Oscar Wilde

One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

— Fanny Fern

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

— Mick Jagger

There are no secrets about England - they are searching for positives.

— Shane Warne