“Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.” FirstsPersonsMadeInspirationBlackSituationChildhoodTypeHeroExpectationsVery GoodAlbumsBritishBritainHatsRealisingUrbanFirst PersonGood PlaceHats OffUrban Music Author:Tinie Tempah
“If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!” IfsFirstsBelieveSaidWould BeAnimalDogCryMajorsNobleLondonBritainBelieve In MeFoundersTowersPopeVesselGreat BritainSubmarinesWestminster Author:Pierre Daninos
“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
“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.” MenFirstsWholeFactsAmericaLyingHistoryCreationThousandForestsBritainRomeEgyptGreeceEncyclopediaAcornsGreece And Rome Book:Twelve Essays Source: Twelve Essays
“The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.” WorldFirstsWarBritainZoneNovemberGreat BritainGreat DayWar Zones Author:George W. Norris