England Quotes · Page 64

As a child growing up, watching England, it was one of those things you always wanted to be involved in.

— Michail Antonio

Had I stayed in England, I would have had to take at least a few acting jobs just for the money.

— Tom Payne

As a youth player, I played for England and got used to it, and I have just to carry it on to…

— Ruben Loftus-Cheek

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

— David Hare

For me to live in England and be part of English football is the maximum of this life.

— Gianluca Vialli

When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look…

— David Beckham

I came to England because I thought it would help me to get back in the Brazilian national team.

— Fernandinho

Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.

— Stan Van Gundy

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change…

— Roger Williams

As an England fan, you want to be involved in the big tournaments, especially when they are playing in your home stadium.

— Callum Wilson

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England…

— George Bernard Shaw

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have…

— William Kidd

I enjoyed Wembley like all the managers before me, and I would hope that games would still be played there by the…

— Roy Hodgson

Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions…

— Stanley Donwood

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the…

— John James Ingalls

In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from…

— Ben Kingsley

There used to be times when you didn't see Indians on television or if you did it was the corner shop guy…

— Jay Sean

I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty…

— George Michael

The idea of separating church and state by the Founding Fathers of America was freedom from the domination of one form of…

— John Lennox

When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom…

— Clive James

I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics,…

— Rachel Nichols

“Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural England hosting a party…

— Dave Gorman

My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died,…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

“If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butterflies, strange flowers and…

— H.G. Wells

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

— Michael Owen

Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.

— Alastair Cook

For me to wear an England badge would have always been enough.

— Leah Williamson

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

— Francis Parkman

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

— Sydney Smith

I was born in Argentina, and have lived in England, Ireland, Africa and Malta.

— Chris de Burgh

England have good fast bowlers who can exploit their home conditions.

— Ravindra Jadeja

Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

— George Mikes

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

— Martha Gellhorn

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.

— Anna Lee

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

— Peter Oliver

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.

— Eartha Kitt

I love England and so does my wife. The centre of London is unbelievable. We are really happy here.

— Pablo Mari

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

— Alice Morse Earle

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the…

— Oscar Wilde