“Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.” WorldPoetryLiteratureSunGrowingTreeColorFlowerHonorShapesDeserveEnglandRosePlantCome UpSeedsSoilOffspringSowingEldestPersiaFruitfulnessHafizPlants Growing Author:Robert Aris Willmott
“The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.” FirstsSaidCountryUseFeelingsOrderFoundHalfPovertyGrowingLandCenturyEnglandDuesDevelopingDevicesPopularityVowProvisionArrivingFriars Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919 Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.” PeopleLightGivenCreativeGrowing UpGrowingDoorsEnglandGreenPublishersBangingGreen Lights Author:Nick Bantock
“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.” WorldMayLongCountryStuffMillionsGrowingRevolutionIndiaEnglandBlueChinaJapanSubstitutesArticlesMexicoOther CountriesCoalFossilsAnnualsCrimsonIndigo Author:August Wilhelm von Hofmann
“Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another world. Something happened to me when I heard that music. It leapt out of the speakers and went straight into my heart. And I thought, "Right, that's what I'm doing."” WorldHeartLittlesArtistGrowing UpGrowingHappenedHeardMy HeartEnglandSpeakersAnother WorldChuckBerriesHowlin WolfMiddlesbrough Author:Paul Rodgers
“New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.” HateCitiesGrowing UpGrowingEnglandBeachSunshineNew YorkersRainy Author:Louise Roe
“It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.” CountryAmericaWealthRichGrowingGreatnessHigherHighestIncreaseEnglandOccasionsLabourWagesMinimum WageNorth AmericaPresent TimeLiving Wage Book:Wealth of Nations (Abridged) Source: Wealth of Nations (Abridged)
“Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.” TodayGuyEmotionGrowing UpGrowingLike YouEnglandBeing Cool Author:Freddie Highmore
“Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingSonBrotherHigh SchoolEnglandFormerMy BrotherPatriotSeniorBostonNew EnglandHigh School SeniorNew England Patriots Author:Matt Hasselbeck
“I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later lived in England. I saw all these war movies that came out shortly after the war, and they were all about the war being fought by Englishmen or Americans, there were no other "allies" in it - from India or Australia, etc.” WantWarGrowing UpSawsGrowingConsciousIndiaEnglandEtcAustraliaAlliesEnglishmenWar Movie Author:Michael Ondaatje
“I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.” WellsKindDoeSeemsSongCoursesGrowsGrowing UpGrowingCenturyListeningGrewGrew UpEnglandObvious21st CenturyCuzObvious ThingsOld Music Author:George Ezra
“I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even though I left when I was quite young. It's just a very different culture over there, filled with a profound depth of history.” DifferentBeautifulYoungCultureLeftMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingEnglandFilledProfoundDepthFabricDifferent CulturesFond Memories Author:Samantha Newark
“As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.” CharacterFilmGirlGrowing UpGrowingEnglandHistoricalSlaveLike MeBiracialGirls Growing Up Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.” WorldEnergyCreativeGrowing UpGrowingTvsEnglandObviousTheatreProseRoutesCreative EnergyMalaysia Author:Arvind Ethan David
“Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.” FirstsAmericaGrowing UpGrowingSkyEnglandImpressionHopefulSarcasmGreyCheerfulFirst ImpressionGrey Skies Author:Stanley Donwood
“I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France, I lived in Japan, England, and Bulgaria. I was determined to experience other places and cultures, particularly because I had the perception that I'd been cut off from these experiences as a child.” ChildrenFactsCultureRolesGrowing UpCuttingGrowingPerceptionEnglandDeterminedFranceJapanEscapismMidwestBulgaria Author:Danielle Trussoni
“Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.” WayHandsCertainGirlCoursesGrowing UpGrowingEnglandWavePrincessRoyal Author:Julie Andrews
“Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.” Growing UpGrowingNeededEnglandEvolveShakesSchooledNew England Author:Emeril Lagasse
“I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.” SeemsGrowing UpGrowingEnglandHeightSwimPoolGlamour Author:Damian Lewis
“... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like bones. He walked through wind and weather, and beneath sun-bleached skies. It seemed to Harold that he had been waiting all his life to walk. He no longer knew how far he had come, but only that he was going forward. The pale Cotswold stone became the red brick of Warwickshire, and the land flattened into middle England. Harold reached his hand to his mouth to brush away a fly, and felt a beard growing in thick tufts. Queenie would live. He knew it.” HandsLightStarsFeltWaitingWalksSunGrowingTreeSkyLandMiddleWindMoonMouthsRedStonesEnglandBonesWeatherThickPaleHungBrushesBricksBeardTrunksEyelashesTree Trunks Author:Rachel Joyce
“For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.” MenProblemGrowing UpGrowingConceptsEnglandDamnOld ManBeardUmpires Author:John Cleese
“English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be.” WayShouldDoneFormLiteratureViewsGrowingOughtDisciplineTraditionEnglandPoint Of ViewBackgroundsFranceGermanyNativeSomedaySpainEthnicityAmerican LiteratureCanonDenmarkEnglish LiteratureComparative Literature Author:Paula Gunn Allen