#england

Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath her analytical mind was a tumbled heap of Englishness in all its glory, or kings and queens, of Runnymede and Shakespeare's London, of hansom cabs and Sherlock Holmes and Watson rattling off into the fog with cries of 'The game's afoot,' of civil wars bestrewing the green land with blood, of spinning jennies and spotted pigs and Churchill and his country standing small and alone against the might of Nazi Germany. It was a mystery to her how this benighted land had produced so many great men and women, and ruled a quarter of the world and spread its language and law and democracy across the planet. ↗

— Elizabeth Aston

#history #men

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#england #football #paradise #you

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England. ↗

— Karel Capek

#cultural #dignity #england #find #freedom

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#england #environment #experiences #film #more

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America. ↗

— Sean Connery

#england #full #i #pay #same

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#angeles #attack #australia #bubonic #continent

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#along #awake #bolshevism #danger #denmark

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#cause #change #changes #communities #england

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#childhood #dates #days #early #early childhood

I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#as far as #change #come #decision #england