#gland

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. ↗

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#attack #back #cash #come #earn

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#came #complex #diamond #england #everybody

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#dull #england #everything #exciting #incredibly

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#ago #america #ancestors #came #dissenters

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits. ↗

— George Shearing

#back #borne #come #england #fact

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#divorce #easy #eleven #england #got

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#bizarre #england #place #produced #profoundly

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England. ↗