#saxon

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#britain #development #easily #fuller #great

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money! ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#commercially #did #ed #finally #had

If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts; Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void ↗

— Deanne Williams

#england #historiography #late-antiquity #narrativist #age

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#anglo-saxon #civilization #him #his #individual

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#anglo-saxon #as far as #better #clubs #concerned

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any! ↗

— Olivia Williams

#anglo-saxon #any #artists #because #bit

I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance and the scope for democracy - democratic control - will be resolved through an even stronger role of the European Parliament. ↗

— Mario Monti

#believe #between #centralized #control #democracy

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#asia #being #coming #competition #enter

I'm winning a date with you. Granted, it's the frigging lamest date on earth, but I'm winning it anyway. ↗

— Liz Reinhardt

#date #saxon #dating

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world. ↗

— Edward Grey

#america #anglo-saxon #between #branches #cause