Britain And America Quotes

• Hoy en día tenemos realmente todo en común con Estados Unidos, excepto, por supuesto, el idioma.

  Oscar Wilde

  Divertido, Humor, Dos Naciones

  The Canterville Ghost pt. 1 (1887) Ver George Bernard Shaw 58

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• England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

  George Bernard Shaw

  País, Dos, América

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• Se acabaron los días en que Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos intervenían en países soberanos para intentar rehacer el mundo a nuestra imagen y semejanza.

  Theresa May

  Country, America, World

  Fuente: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

  Richard O'Brien

  America, Australia, Shapes

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• The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Eye, College

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.109

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• I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.

  Amanda McKittrick Ros

  America, Law, One Day

  Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr

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• Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.

  Robert Kuttner

  Effort, Shelter, Economy

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.188, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• And one of the challenges, of course, is to convince people that Muslims would like to be free, that there's other people other than people in Britain and America that would like to be free in the world.

  George W. Bush

  People, Challenges, World

  President Bush, Tony Blair Hold a Joint News Conference, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 2006.

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• This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Historical, Degrees, Life Is

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• The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

  Marcus Rediker

  Real, Slave Ships, People

  Marcus Rediker (2007). “The Slave Ship: A Human History”, p.13, Penguin

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• A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monument—the world’s largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Powerful, Eye

  Rick Riordan (2010). "The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid, Hyperion.

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• Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the study of stem cells is one of the most exciting areas in biology, but I think it is unlikely that embryonic stem cells are likely to be useful in healthcare for a long time.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, Cells, Long

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• What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

  Zaha Hadid

  Quality, Building, Civics

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