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“I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people.”

“As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which was an unusually literate place - practically no one could read or write. And even in New England, the overall rate was only about 60 percent. That still means four out of 10 people couldn't put their name to a will.”

People Writing Mean Stills Reading Names Saws Four Century Percent England Rate 19th Century New England

Author:Robert Hass

“I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that.”

Writing Stills Suffering England Definitions California Paradox American History New England

Author:Kevin Starr

“In fact, what were called the socialist countries in Eastern Europe were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more rights in the United States and England than they had in Russia, and it was somehow still called socialism.”

World Stills Country States Facts United United States Rights Europe England Workers Russia Socialism Socialist Eastern Eastern Europe Socialist Countries

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society.”

“In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world. The last remnant of the commons is the environment, which the indigenous people are still trying to preserve and we sophisticated rich people are trying to destroy.”

“In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'”

Stills Young Hair Red England Britain Witch Stakes Ripped Red Hair Ginger

Author:Damian Lewis

“I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.”

Stills Mother Church Members Daughter England Church Of England Vicars

Author:Theresa May

“When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.”

Inspirational Stills Three New York Humorous England London Clock City Of London

Author:Bette Midler

“The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.”

Stills States Form United Rooms United States Economy Ten Areas England France Borders Lakes Spares Coast Pacific Great Lakes

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.”

Kind Stills Stars Organization England Patriot Overwhelmed New England New England Patriots

Author:Randy Moss

“I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.”

Years Has Beens Stills Country Values Attitude England Assuming Eras Australia Aggressive Sheep Prominent Convicts Early 20s

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.”

World Stills Opinion Happened Modern Europe England Affair Currents Sophisticated Modern World Commentators Forecasts American Writer Current Affairs

Author:Salman Rushdie

“France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection

“This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody, but still a decent jumper and a waxen jacket lined with wool is sufficient for every weather England's got to give.”

Giving Stills Light Happens Water Air Wind Cold England Blow Weather Sufficient Decent Jackets Creeps January Hail Tuesday Wool Jumpers

Book:On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

“When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.”

Source: Here On Earth

“This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.”

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.”

“It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.”

Feels Years Stills Two Party Leader Adults England Responsible Conservative Two Years Conservative Party

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“I studied Italian five hours a day for many months to ensure I could communicate with the players, media and fans. [Claudio] Ranieri had been in England for five years and still struggled to say 'good morning' and 'good afternoon.'”

Years Stills Hours Morning Five Player Fans Media Months England Communicate Five Years Italian Afternoon Good Afternoon

Author:Jose Mourinho

“When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.”

Long Stills America Purpose Lost Strong Identity England Jew Germany Gentiles Jewish Identity England And America

Author:Maurice Samuel

“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.”

“I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!”

Feels Stills Interesting Team Havens England Conservative Halls Cricket Very Interesting Carnegie Interesting Life Carnegie Hall

Author:Jeffrey Archer

“A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.”

Stills Joy Nations England Dread Ants Insulting Joy And Happiness Frigid Morose

Book:John Bull and His Daughters

Source: John Bull and His Daughters

“If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.”

Ifs Stills Sides Kings England Swans

Book:To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived”

Said Stills Country Feet England Atmosphere Bus Fewer Aggression Other Countries Crowded Brutality Germs Pubs Queues

Book:The lion and the ostrich: the eighth annual lecture under the

Source: The lion and the ostrich: the eighth annual lecture under the

“Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.”

Stills Pain Decision Environment Regret Research England Leaving Painful Chemistry Theoretical

Author:John Pople

“It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners.”

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs”

Source: Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts

“To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.”

“There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.”

Ifs Stills Country Would Be Black Machines England Ugly Multitudes Manufacturing Famine

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.”

Years Has Beens Stills Shows Century Thousand Eating Years Ago England Bones Chinese Meat Kitchen Knives Fourth Thousand Years Forks Hacked Chopsticks

Author:Ruth Reichl

“I still get butterflies when England are playing.”

Stills England Butterfly I Get Butterflies

Author:Alan Shearer

“I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.”

Stills Social Position England Institutions Continents Social Institutions Better Woman

Author:Andrew Eldritch

“The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.”

“England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!”

Love Stills Country England Faults Thee

Author:William Cowper

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