Amazingly Quote by Rachel Cusk

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.

— Gerald Scarfe

Even austere, puritanical Cambridge of the Sixties was infinitely nicer and infinitely more attractive than the world I'd known before.

— David Starkey

I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even though I…

— Samantha Newark

And our experience in England was that. It was a delight. I had never even been to England and I got to spend five…

— Jerusha Hess

In my eyes, America seemed to have an unabashed sense of freedom and fun while England was a little bit more reserved. Truthfully, I…

— Samantha Newark

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

— Kevin Ayers

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

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a…

— Patrick White

My New England upbringing was cute. I think it was nice growing up in a smaller town. I got to experience small-town life, which…

— Brad Mondo

America is the land of the hustler: it's bigger, bolder, flasher, more in your face, whereas England's more about attention to detail - trying…

— Dizzee Rascal

For most of my childhood, I grew up in the countryside of England, where it was very suburban - there weren't a lot of…

— Sonoya Mizuno

There was definitely a wild side to me that couldn't run free growing up in England.

— Catherine Oxenberg