Britain Quotes - Page 2

• First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

  Geddy Lee

  Country, America, Different

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• The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Use, Separation

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.90, Penguin

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• The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Iraq, Incapable

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• Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

  Gordon Brown

  Cells, Numbers, Our World

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• I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Thinking, Sometimes, Mankind

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• Hablo con la debida consideración porque Gran Bretaña, Francia y México han abolido la esclavitud, y todos los demás Estados europeos se disponen a abolirla tan pronto como puedan.

  William H. Seward

  Europa, México, Esclavitud

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• It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Rome, America, United States

  "Islam versus the West". Interview with Amanda Griscom-Little, www.rollingstone.com. August 7, 2003.

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• People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

  Alistair Cooke

  America, People, Listening

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

  Barbara Castle, Baronesa Castle de Blackburn

  Oil, Economic, Explosions

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• Estamos redefiniendo y replanteando nuestro socialismo en términos de revolución científica... En la Gran Bretaña que se va a forjar al calor de esta revolución no habrá lugar para prácticas restrictivas ni métodos anticuados en ninguno de los dos lados de la industria.

  Harold Wilson

  Science, Practice, White

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• 872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.

  Winston Churchill

  Kings, Years, Two

  Winston Churchill (2004). “A History of the English Speaking Peoples 01. The Birth of Britain.”

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• I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

  Annie Lennox

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

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• America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!

  Matt Groening

  Japón, Europa, América

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• It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.

  Hugh Gaitskell

  Mean, Independent, Years

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• It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

  Josiah Strong

  Ideas, Two, United States

  Josiah Strong (1963). "Nuestro país"

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• Un apaciguador es aquel que alimenta a un cocodrilo con la esperanza de que le coma a él en último lugar.

  Winston Churchill

  Naturaleza, Educativo, Humorístico

  Reader's Digest, diciembre de 1954.

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• La mayoría de los cineastas independientes de Gran Bretaña y Norteamérica trabajan para equipos comerciales y luego tienen sus propios proyectos cuando tienen suficiente dinero ahorrado para hacerlo.

  Ann Macbeth

  Independent, America, Enough

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• Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Canada, United States, Lows

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• I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

  Edwin Starr

  Mundo

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• Lo que más me enorgullece es el éxito de los espectáculos y los artistas con los que he colaborado, porque se han hecho en Gran Bretaña.

  Simon Cowell

  Artist, Achievement, Made

  "Simon Cowell's Sun sermon decoded" por John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. 5 de mayo de 2010.

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• No estoy seguro de que merezca la pena hacer algo remotamente público en Gran Bretaña. Es una sociedad tan rencorosa. La gente parece disfrutar haciéndote la vida imposible porque sí.

  Andrew Eldritch

  People, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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• Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

  Douglas Hurd

  Growing Up, Years, Europe

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• I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

  Chris Patten

  Intellectual, Baggage, Unnecessary

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• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  J. B. Priestley

  War, Years, Hymns

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• America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

  Ringo Starr

  Funny, America, Buttons

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