Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph O'Neill

I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or England or any of these places which other novelists are able to write about in relation to their childhoods.

Elizabeth Strout

In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.

Gloria Steinem

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.

Ian Hislop

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

Kevin Keegan

But I would be happy for him to join up if he is selected and put the matter in the hands of the England medical staff.

Michael Owen

If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

David Beckham

The players and a lot of people in England knew it before this tournament but now Europe is finding out about Wayne Rooney. And we're very lucky to have such a good player in our team.

Keith Wood

With so many retirements and injuries, it will be very hard for England in Cardiff.

Bryan Robson

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

My first ever-ever professional role was in a television show in England called 'Love Soup.' It starred Tamsin Greig. I just played a small role - I think officially my role was 'teenage boy' - it was one episode.

Sven Eriksson

Well, he's one of those knocking on the door. He's doing better and better. I saw him twice and went to see him again. He's knocking on the door. He's young, if he's not going to the World Cup, I'm sure he will play for England one day.

Jonny Wilkinson

To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.

Nevil Shute

When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.

Douglas Booth

When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.

This surface has met every test in England.

There has been hunting in England for 700 years. This (ban) may take two or three years, perhaps two or three months, to unpick. It will be nothing more than a temporary break,

Gordon Taylor

There has been a long history of sledging between England and Australia.

Norv Turner

We knew the hardship of going to New England, playing right after the (roster) cuts, getting less time to prepare than other teams, the travel and all that. The other side is we get more time to prepare for the next game, from a mental and a physical standpoint. We've got to make the most of it.

Pat Burns

We're not looking back. We're just looking forward to states, the Open, and hopefully qualifying for New England.

This year was a great experience for Josh. To have two years left and have already reached the New England championships is huge. I hope to help him reach his goal of being a state champion.

Darren Gough

We were really up for it, ... The Australians normally come at us hard from day one. To get one up on them was nice. It's 1-0 to England but it's a long summer.

P. J. O'Rourke

I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.

Noam Chomsky

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

Alice Morse Earle

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 milking-stools.

Adrian McKinty

After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.

Brian Skerry

New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore provide food for so many animals, from giant whales to sharks to everything else.

William Wallace

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!

Shirley MacLaine

I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.

Steven Gerrard

was something for the England manager to consider, not me.

Alan Moore

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

Dennis Bergkamp

When I retired in 2006, I stayed for a further two years in England. I stayed because I wanted to be in England without being a footballer, without the rhythm. I wanted to enjoy the city.

Kevin Spacey

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.