England Quotes - page 12

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. (Kate Adie)
I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice. View quote
Kathie Lee Gifford
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. View quote
Keith Henson
Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over. View quote
Lillie Langtry
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. View quote
Lillie Langtry
When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago. View quote
Louis Leakey
If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray. View quote
Madeleine M. Kunin
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture. View quote
Marc Newson
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. View quote
Mary Garden
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England. View quote
Matthew Hale
An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes. (Melissa Leo)
The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women. View quote
Millicent Fawcett
You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there. View quote
Monica Seles
I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online. View quote
Nate Berkus
I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor. View quote
Nicholas Stoller
To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate. View quote
Peter Shilton
My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time. View quote
Parminder Nagra
In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really. View quote
Parminder Nagra
My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally. View quote
Patrick Macnee
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. (Patrick Stewart)
When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England. View quote
Paul Cellucci
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. View quote
Rick Moody
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight. View quote
Rick Springfield
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. View quote
Randy Harrison