“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.” YearsFirstsHumansStillsTwoFactsDiesBornAirCreaturesEternalEnglandTwentiesBritainIrelandSeventiesForeignersBeing IrishIreland And The Irish Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!” GivenAirSeaLandEnglandPossessionEmpiresProvidence Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ... Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...
“In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.” TwoThreeVoiceAirNew YorkShapesBirdEnglandMereVisibleSugarRumorNew EnglandSapMapleBluebird Book:The Art of Seeing Things: Essays Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays
“Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.” IfsCountryMomentsFallAirEnglandSlaverySlaveBreatheOur CountryThat MomentLungsShacklesSlavery Freedom Author:William Cowper
“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.” FirstsHumansCountrySpiritSidesPerfectAirFlowerLateSummerEnglandStealingShouldersFlightHeatAutumnLeafsSpyAugustCloaksNew EnglandSummertimeSummer DaysRipeningSummer SunSummer GardenSummer InspirationalLeaves And FlowersLate Summer Author:Sarah Orne Jewett
“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.” PersonsSocialNaturalDifferencesClassAirStreetsStyleDrugEnglandRelationDressesTrainStoresBackgroundsMannersDriversAccentsAssistantsStrollingCabSnobberyDeferenceHostessesSocial RelationsCab DriversBarmenClass Differences Author:Anthony Crosland
“If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.” IfsThinkingWayShouldMadeBookHomeBodyEarthDiesSunForeverRichAirFieldsFlowerRiversEnglandCornersDustBreathingBoresConcealed Author:Rupert Brooke
“In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.” IfsArtRealityDiesPrinciplesAirTalentReflectionMadnessEnglandAbsolutesProfessionWitIntroducingRoguesAbsolute FreedomPedants Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.” LongAirSeaWindBearsEnglandAncientWaveTriumphAviationSovereignReignSovereigntyMistressAirpower Author:Thomas Gray
“When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.” MenMeanSelfCountryLightSunAirSeaMountainDrawsEnglandBreathsWideHillsUsaRisingSelf RespectPatrioticPatriotUnited States Of AmericaNew EnglandPrairieAmerican PatrioticInner LightAmerican PatriotismAmerican PatriotPatriotism In AmericaUsa PatrioticUsa PatriotismPatriotism And Freedom Author:Adlai E. Stevenson
“On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.” WholeEarthPurposeSufferingHoursCompanyPrinciplesMorningPowerSunAirMilitaryBeatsGloryEnglandRaisedFollowingPossessionSurfaceCirclesPostsHeightRomeFlagsGlobesStrainConquestColonyUnbrokenAfarSubjugationDrum Beats Author:Daniel Webster
“Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.” ThinkingLyingForgetHistoryGoneAirEnglandDefenseDeceitNever ForgetFrontiersCliffsChalkDover Author:Stanley Baldwin