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“Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast.”

Past England Depth Casts Immense Legendary Nightfall

Book:Lupercal

Source: Lupercal

“The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.”

World Past Remember Son Grew Proud Fame Window England Breasts Our Future Milk New World Remember When Raleigh

Author:James Russell Lowell

“When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.”

Men Way Has Beens Two Country Feelings Past Interest Sea Findings Enlightenment England Blessed Unity Fancy Injury Mutual Ireland Two Countries

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.”

Country Past Grew Grew Up England Sells

Author:Vinnie Jones

“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.”

“To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.”

Source: Freedom the Wolfe Tone way

“I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.”

Stills Real Past Spirit Worship England Green Moved Ghost Hills Irony Fever New England Hay Melville Hawthorne Green Hills Hay Fever

Author:John Updike

“Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.”

“I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I was almost 18 and been on my own ever since and have been trying to make a living in the music business for the past twelve years. A lot of people say I'm an overnight success, but it's an overnight success that's been twelve years in the making.”

People Trying Years Has Beens Past Parent My Own Childhood England Blessed Moved Twelve Music Business Overnight Success Great Parents

Author:Bo Bice

“I run; that's sort of my meditation. I've been to therapy in the past when I've had crisis moments in my life; I think it's very healthy. I think that's even a more acceptable attitude in America actually than it is probably back at home [in England].”

Thinking Moments Home Running America Past Attitude Meditation Healthy England Crisis Therapy Acceptable

Author:Natalie Dormer

“Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.”

“People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.”

People Want Past Fiction Novel England Historical Historical Fiction

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in-between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.”

People Ifs Problem Past Courses Walks Pay Serious Built England Structure Phones British Miles Telephones Tanks Posh Mailboxes

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.”

Past Roles Regret England Filled Fading Past Regrets

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas