#england

I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world. ↗

— Usher

#england #going #i #rest #understand

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

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back. ↗

— Sting

#back #change #class #did #england

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home. ↗

— Sting

#england #home #i #last #miss

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#builds #children #does #easily #england

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#despite #england #faults #germans #germany

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#already #although #begun #development #england

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person. ↗

— George Orwell

#history #life #life

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing ↗

— Willem Lange

#dry-humor #humor #new-england #perplexing #pessimism