Community Quote by Catherine Helen Spence Download Open image “My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.” — Catherine Helen Spence ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community London Range Return
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I came to London when I was a year and a half for four years. Since then I have been back and forth. I do mostly feel like a Londoner: I enjoy the Angle-Saxon acceptance of difference and I feel it's more of an integrated society than most places. But this is in London, not the rest of the UK. — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share
I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little… — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our… — Jim Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures together just… — MNEK Copy Share Image
By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Seeing different sides of life, seeing different sides of society, that's what London's all about. When I was young my mum always tried to… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
As a transplanted northerner, London has always signified big-city glamour and cosmopolitanism. It's part of what drew me here after university. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both. — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family. — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but… — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia -… — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner. — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in. — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its… — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image