1100 England Quotes for You to Enjoy

The measure of success was writing a song, recording it and for it being in the hit parade in England. Success was about the postman walking up the garden whistling my song. I wasn't trying to conquer the world. Gilbert O'Sullivan

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Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business. Henry Rollins

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good. Andrew O'Hagan

Service Dreams Good Class Happy People Poverty Every Jobs Wins Take Never Had Part Celebrity Disenchantment Story Informs Working Grandparents Granted Working-Class England English English People Code Whose Credit Credit Cards Cards

I think it's a good match, Dutch players playing in England. Rafael van der Vaart

Good Think I Think Match Dutch England Players Playing

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea. Salman Rushdie

Way Given Island Frontiers Sea England Lucky

My parents wanted me to stay in England because they love the football here and how the people feel about football. It was important for them, too, that I stayed in the Premier League. Xherdan Shaqiri

I would love to stay in England, but I don't want to rule anything out. Xherdan Shaqiri

Love Rule Out Would Stay Want Anything England

I will support Ireland at rugby, but when England and Ireland are playing, I sit on the fence. Eoin Morgan

Will Sit Rugby Support Fence Ireland England Playing

Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England. M.I.A.

My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.' Jack O'Connell

Experience First Feature Feature Film Shane Meadows England Film

My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard. Uzo Aduba

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The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible. Andrew O'Hagan

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Given that GPs are essentially a private part of our health care system, providing services independently of the rest of the health service, NHS England is supposed to take a strategic approach to co-ordinating GP practices. Emily Thornberry

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To be successful to me meant to have a hit record in England. I never looked outside England. Gilbert O'Sullivan

Me Record Outside Never Looked Hit Hit Record Successful Meant England

Not playing for Liverpool would hurt me more than not playing for England. Jamie Carragher

Me Hurt Would More Than England Liverpool Playing

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history. Curt Smith

Good History Long Somewhere Some Long History Always Maybe Which England

Matches in England are special. Xabi Alonso

Matches Special England

I think I constantly refer back to some of the things that I learned in New England and throughout my career. It was a great stepping stone, and it also gave me time to mature as a player and as a quarterback. Matt Cassel

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I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with its own rules, or if you're going to look at working class people, you have to do that in a particular 'Isn't it a shame, aren't they oppressed' way, or it's treated comically. Steven Knight

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