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England Quotes by Alice Morse Earle
- We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named…
- Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in…
- In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like…
- From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
- In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than…
- One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before…
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- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that… — Lester Bangs
- Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense… — Stanley Baldwin
- I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to… — J. G. Ballard
- I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing… — David Beckham
- We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently. — David Beckham
- In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in… — Victoria Beckham
- The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant
- My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed… — Juliette Binoche
- I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only… — Bjork