#england

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree. ↗

— Colin Firth

#certainly #cutting #england #gave #i

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. ↗

— John Florio

#hell #horses #men #paradise #purgatory

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. ↗

— Mary Garden

#aviation #considered #dangerous #early #endurance

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great. ↗

— George Carey

#back #christianity #england #foundations #get

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#control #country #disappears #enabled #england

As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#best #country #customer #demands #england

In England we are sort of very awkward. ↗

— Tom Felton

#england #sort #very

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#blew #disasters #does #england #get

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#cocoon #down #england #fans #football

Oxford It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and cease The Spirit’s work—to hunger and aspire: Lest we forget that we were born divine, Now tangled in red battle’s animal net, Murder the work and lust the anodyne, Pains of the beast ‘gainst bestial solace set. But this shall never be: to us remains One city that has nothing of the beast, That was not built for gross, material gains, Sharp, wolfish power or empire’s glutted feast. We are not wholly brute. To us remains A clean, sweet city lulled by ancient streams, A place of visions and of loosening chains, A refuge of the elect, a tower of dreams. She was not builded out of common stone But out of all men’s yearning and all prayer That she might live, eternally our own, The Spirit’s stronghold—barred against despair. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#oxford #poem #dreams