Pastoral Resources

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.