Traditional English Sayings

#1. Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.

Kate Bush

#2. Our bodies are like vast landscapes, revealing hidden stories and emotions through their physical changes, both external and internal.

Susan L. Smalley

#3. For it is the young tree grown out of the old root which shall illuminate what the old tree has been in its wonders.

Jakob Bohme

#4. I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.

Jon Winokur

#5. I am doomed or fortunate to stick to what I do best.

Jill Sobule

#6. I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.

Ben Elliot

#7. For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

Pablo Neruda

#8. Noel [Charles, husband] and I love cooking. He does his cooking and I do mine. I'm the traditional English cook, with a twist now and then. Because I was married to an Italian, I'm also pretty good at Italian food. Noel, he can cook anything, so can Julian.

Cynthia Lennon

#9. Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump.

Vic Toews

#10. Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene.

Graeme Le Saux

#11. Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Teresa Of Avila

#12. A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.

Fennel Hudson

#13. I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.

Susan Hill

#14. My children were educated in what were then Chinese schools, and they learned English as a subject. But they made up when they went to English-language universities. So they didn't lose out. They had a basic set of traditional Confucian values. Not my grandchildren.

Lee Kuan Yew