There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.
People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.
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.
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
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.
I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.
It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.
For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.
Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money.
When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.
So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.
In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
On 'This Is England,' everyone is mates. The nice thing is that when you watch us, you're watching a gang. They're young, and they're adventurous. There's a real closeness there.
Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches.
People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.
I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.
It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.
I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!
The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.
Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.
I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
