Every person in England is currently recycling enough to fill eight green wheelie bins, but they could be filling over 20 – the equivalent of 60% of their waste.

This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England twenty-two, if not the starting XV.

At one point, so many people had assembled on the bridge that linked the ship to the shore that the timbers began to creak and groan. Suddenly, there was a tremendous crack and a hundred...

I enjoyed history at school. I’d always had a sense of pagan England.

This is England,” he explained. “Tell someone it’s a procedure, and they’ll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

The morning has broken – I had thought of the morning like an egg that had split with a crack and was spreading. Before us lay all the green of the green country of England,...

Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from...

This book is a lot about the New England of today.

Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism’s an English thing and we’re aw Jock Tamson’s bairn up here . . . it’s likesay pure shite man, gadges talkin through their erses.

Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural England hosting a party like this? A party? In a school? With children present? Where marijuana is...

I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win...

She felt a tightness in her chest and sent for Dr Simcox.’What’s the trouble?”Look out there, that’s the trouble! It’s so green and quiet and it’s always bloody raining.”That’s England, Mrs Mallard-Greene. I’m afraid there’s...

We thought we would give England a bit of a scare.

I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great...

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn’t-it just stops you from enjoying it.

This century will be called Darwin’s century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write...

The earnings data may encourage the Bank of England to hold off from cutting interest rates in the immediate future as March while it seeks sustained clear evidence that the pay settlements for 2006 are...

In New England, Belichick had established players, guys who knew him. He can just give you that look, and you’ll straighten up.

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in...

England are a magnificent team,

Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England – that’s how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?

We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet...

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no...

As we drew nearer I saw a cathedral like a crown on the head of a city. In its white walls every window glinted in the sun. Lincoln! Of such places is England made. -“No...

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

Right now we’re not executing. I’m not sure if it’s because New England is used to playing against a similar defense with Miami being in their conference. We weren’t executing and they were. I see...

They were betting New England like the other team wasn’t even going to show up.

When just a kid, moved back to Canada and looking for a taste of England, I’d picked up a book of my Gram’s, a dog-eared romance from the ’sixties about English hospital ‘sisters’ trying to...

I’ve never been thrown out of a pub, but I’ve fallen into quite a few

Against Washington and New England we got off pretty lucky because there wasn’t enough time left. This week it finally caught up to us.

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing,...

Let’s see someone in charge with feeling for the game and let’s make sure England are coached by an Englishman.

Burst pipes were an English tradition, like so many others.Like, for instance, English men. Charm the knickers off you with their mellow vowels and frivolous verbiage, and then, once they’d got them off, panic and...

It was a very satisfying innings, England have one of the better attacks I have played in Indian conditions.

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire...

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England – Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

With one member of the MPC voting for an interest rate cut in December and Bank of England chief economist, Charlie Bean, recently making some dovish comments, the odds of an interest rate cut early...

Didier is a very good lad, … He’s much better than some people in England think. He hasn’t shown the best quality yet but in Marseilles he was incredibly good. I know he will show...

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

We’ve had a tendency to hit a couple of flat spots in the games against England and Italy, … We’ve got away with it so far, but against a side like France we could be...

Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed ‘special relationship’ between our two countries.I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it...

The Steelers, still nursing their wounds after their first loss of the season to the New England Patriots, will be back in full force to take on the explosive Chargers, … The AFC is tough...

There is certainly no pressure from us, and I don’t think there is any from England for him to be playing.

There is a cunning which we in England call “”the turning of the cat in the pan;”” which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said...

… Mr Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days — the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height, when to an Englishman, be he lord, yeoman, or peasant, the...