British Heritage Quotes

I’ll put the “Great” back into Great Britain

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

I've always dreamed of being a 'Burberry Girl', but know it'll never happen, because I'm not British. Still, you can't stop a girl from dreaming. And owning way too many Burberry coats!

What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.

My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That's where she met my grandfather, who was sailing for the British Royal Navy. She was a war bride.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

The U.K. was extremely important to my father and continues to be a place of tremendous goodwill for my family and I.

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

Even in terms of the technical stuff there's a very traditional British flavor that comes out. Our characters are influenced by our culture so there's definitely something unique about British wrestlers in the U.S.

We've never adopted Americanisms. We are a very British band from a very British cultural scene. We fly that flag and that is something I enjoy.

I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off a bit twee and only about cream teas and that sort of things.

Alan Moore is a peculiarly unsung triumph of British culture, and Northampton, where he was born in 1953, the son of brewery worker Ernest and printer Sylvia, is where you must go to find him.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

In global terms, to be born British remains a remarkable stroke of luck.

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.

It [the EEC] would mean the end of Britain as an independent nation state … the end of a thousand years of history.

Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust after empire, because this was exactly what their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic also did.

I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.