#england

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#closer #common #connection #different #different people

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. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#been #blessed #england #experienced #fills

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England. ↗

— William John Wills

#england #father #french #i #i see

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world. ↗

— Edward Grey

#america #anglo-saxon #between #branches #cause

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#career #confident #doing #either #england

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#england #europe #france #india #indies

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#england #governments #local #local governments #more

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#because #colonies #departments #england #government

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#caused #effort #england #growth #immense