Top 33 Quotes About The British Isles
#1. If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#2. The earliest witch-trial in the British Isles shows animal sacrifice. In 1324 in Ireland Lady Alice Kyteler 'was charged to haue nightlie conference with a spirit called Robin Artisson, to whom she sacrificed in the high waie .ix. red cocks'.[610]
Anonymous
#3. When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
Terri Windling
#4. I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
Robert Duvall
#5. In the folklore of the British Isles, a bodach is a vile beast that slithers down chimneys at night and carries off children who misbehave. Rather like Inland Revenue agents.
Dean Koontz
#6. The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.
Richard Flanagan
#7. Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.
Nicholas Rodger
#8. He sat there all through a history lesson about the Roman Empire, which
having lived in the Roman Empire, for the four hundred years during which it had included the British Isles
he found inaccurate and boring.
Susan Cooper
#9. Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply. Of all intellectual pursuits, history is the most supremely useful. That is why people crave it and need ever more of it.
Simon Jenkins
#10. When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
George Mikes
#11. We weather the vagaries of history, welcoming new rulers and bending knees to those in power, whoever they may be. We are a tool of the nation, an asset of the British Isles. Those who work within the Checquy can accomplish what no one else can, and so they are the secret arm of the kingdom.
Daniel O'Malley
#12. Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
Stephen Leacock
#13. As he followed Wood, Jury thought: one disappearance, two auto accident victims, one in a mental institution, one drowned. One murdered. Rackmoor, for all its bracing sea air, didn't seem the healthiest place in the British Isles.
Martha Grimes
#14. The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.
Tina Brown
#15. was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement.
Neil Gaiman
#16. He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one.
(about Ian St John)
Bill Shankly
#17. This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.
David Nicholls
#18. It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#19. D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a constant rate, over time.
Mark Stoneking
#20. The gate that leads to life is narrow and small so that few find it.
Rae Carson
#21. The apple was meant to take away the bitter taste, perhaps," he said.
"I imagine that Mr. Turing wasn't exactly looking for a taste experience," said Corell.
"Man always tries to limit his suffering.
David Lagercrantz
#23. We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.
Cheri Huber
#25. China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.
Li Na
#26. I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
Madeleine Albright
#27. I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.
Patti Smith
#28. You're a good man, Cap'n Horn. I know that Miss Willis would be here with you if she could." "She will be here with me. She'll be here if I have to scour all of the confounded British Isles to find her.
Sabrina Jeffries
#29. She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.
Montague Glass
#30. I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.
Lea Salonga
#31. Don't fear what they fear, or dread what they dread. 13After all, only the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, should terrify you. Only God is holy. Only God should leave you trembling.
Anonymous
#32. Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
