261 Quotes About Britain
- Author Sarah Harrison
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If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?
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- Author Stephen Hawking
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I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.
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- Author Thor Heyerdahl
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People had already settled the islands in the Mediterranean and around Great Britain long before the first pharaoh built the pyramids in Egypt.
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- Author W. Averell Harriman
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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.
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- Author William Hamilton
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Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.
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- Author William Hague
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The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.
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- Author Michael Ignatieff
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What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.
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- Author R. Ingram
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I am happy to be in New Britain this season. Going to Double-A is a big step and I'm really excited about the opportunity.
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- Author Boris Johnson
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To rely on a train in Blair's Britain is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.
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