#england

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland. ↗

— Richard Russo

#center #dublin #england #ever #had

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#ago #america #ancestors #came #dissenters

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#divorce #easy #eleven #england #got

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#england #farming #implements #sydney

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#doing #england #enjoying #just #keep

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#america #bring #england #great #i

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#dante #england #france #glory #his

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#back #england #farm #got #had

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. ↗

— Paul Harris

#concerned #cradle #deed #descendants #england