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The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland. -- Billy Campbell
I grew up really fast when I moved to England when I was 12 years old. -- Derek Hough
The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins. -- Caleb Cushing
I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England. -- John Burnside
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s. -- will.i.am
They do awful things in the press. One newspaper in England said I was 12 years older than I am, and I was ready to sue. -- Diane Ladd
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny. -- Jenny Eclair
The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. -- George Bernard Shaw
When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II. I grew up with bomb sites everywhere. -- Geoffrey West
In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it. -- Christopher Walken
Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa, America, everywhere. I'm still a 13-year-old kid, flying. -- Shekhar Kapur
I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from. -- Ted Naifeh
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. -- John Cleese
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. -- Stanley Baldwin
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing. -- Monica Ali
The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere. -- Rachel Cusk
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke. -- Rabih Alameddine
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. -- Gustav Stresemann
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. -- Stanley Baldwin
Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly. -- Henry Petroski
There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. -- William Shakespeare
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea. -- Mary Howitt
England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head. -- Fatboy Slim
Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn. -- Rudyard Kipling
A 17-year-old girl in Australia hacked into my e-mail while I was on it, Then a 15-year-old girl in England did the same thing. -- Robert Pattinson
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. -- George Orwell
At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US. -- Donald Rumsfeld
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. -- Ted Hughes
The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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