England Quotes · Page 31

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

— Amy Winehouse

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

— James Agate

I lived in America for a while but England is very much my home, and London especially.

— David Essex

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

— Wayne Rooney

This is the best Man United have played in Europe this season and, conversely, the opposition has been excellent.

— Ron Atkinson

Everything has to be within the rules, but the physical side in England is why it's such a competitive league.

— Marouane Fellaini

Nasser Hussain was skipper when I first played for England and a massive influence. He showed me a lot of faith.

— James Anderson

Not playing for Liverpool would hurt me more than not playing for England.

— Jamie Carragher

I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects…

— Jack W. Szostak

This morning President Obama met with Britain's Prince William in the Oval Office. It was a meeting between a symbolic ruler with…

— Conan O'Brien

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic…

— Russell Crowe

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals…

— Karen Maitland

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is…

— Jules Verne

When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely…

— Jane Green

The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy,…

— Helen Keller

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

— Brian Eno

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it…

— David Starkey

As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South]…

— Eustace Mullins

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

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

“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

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

I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it…

— Marilynne Robinson

There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an…

— Laurie Helgoe

You can ask any young player in the lower leagues. They always dream of playing for England.

— Harry Maguire

I've played all over the world. I've played in England, South Africa, Pakistan.

— Imran Tahir

My mom's favorite song ever is 'Imagine' because it came out around when she arrived in England.

— Himesh Patel

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.

— William Carey

[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

— Shelagh Delaney

“I should have stayed in England. I should never have come here.”

— Ben Hammott

I usually get a good reaction anywhere in England, but Manchester is the place they go a little more wild for me.

— William Regal

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

— Ron Atkinson

“In England there is no mercy for the poor. You pay for everything, even a broken neck." 472”

— Hilary Mantel

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

— Jimmy Carl Black

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

— Shimon Peres

I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.

— Stanley Donwood

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

— Stephen Gardiner

I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

— Ron Atkinson

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

— Horace Walpole

They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.

— Ron Atkinson