A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
To me, attacking football happens when Makelele gets the ball and passes it to the central defender who passes it to the… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
“When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
He will be England captain one day. Jack Wilshere is a real leader. I saw how he spoke with the referee and… — Fabio Capello Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today,… — William of Malmesbury Copy Share Image
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South]… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last ten… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
“I knew that Sundays in England aren't just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand that one simply tiptoe… — Javier Marias Copy Share Image
The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
For example, in England, we teach about Expressionism, but it is not the same in England as it is in Germany, because… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists -… — Ira Carmen Copy Share Image
To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath… — Parley P. Pratt Copy Share Image
We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does… — Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans Copy Share Image
A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother… — David Lee Copy Share Image
“England? The worst of all. You know, I do some business there, I have friends in England. Their flats are broken into… — James Salter Copy Share Image
When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
“It doesn't happen to me anymore, because a fresh generation of Africans and Asians has arisen to take over the business, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live… — Xavi Copy Share Image
I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image