02.15.06
Posted in English Quotes, Famous Quotes, Olympics Quotes, Sports Quotes at 7:58 pm by Administrator
London Olympic Games Quotes - London 2012 Olympics Quotes
It has been announced that London will host the Olympic Games in 2012 - the first time the Olympics will be held in Britain since 1948.
A momentous day for London… I couldn’t bear to watch (the final announcement). It is not often in this job that you get to punch the air and do a little jig and embrace the person standing next to you.
- Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
The Games will inspire the nation and give us the ability to showcase all that is great about Britain.
- Gary Lineker, sports presenter and former football star
We will promise you a Games you will never forget.
- Ken Livingstone - London Mayor
London 2012 will be a brilliant sporting event and something for us all to be very proud of.
- Jonny Wilkinson, England and Lions rugby star
For our country it inspires so many children to go out there and, they can go and watch an Olympics, I can go, I can take my children to watch an Olympics where I was, where I was brought up, so it’s an amazing feeling.
- David Beckham
I’m looking forward to what I’m sure will be a fantastic Olympic Games.
- Prince William
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02.04.06
Posted in English Quotes, Famous Quotes at 4:36 pm by Administrator
English Quotes
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian & political scientist, 1805-1859
If there’s anything I’d hate as a son-in-law, it’s an actor; and if there’s anything I think I’d hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it’s an English actor.
- Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969) US businessman
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.
- Robert Graves (1895-1985) English writer
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
- Dorothy Sayers, English writer, 1893-1957
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