Curt Smith Quotes

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits.

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

The tourists who come to our island take in the Monarchy along with feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square.

Victorian values…were the values when our country became great.

When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.

I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

I love anything to do with history.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I've always wanted to see those.

That great dust-heap called “history.”

We are reminded here of our past, of the continuity of our national story, and the virtues of resilience, ingenuity, and tolerance which created it…

I think anybody's who's ever traveled to Paris or any sort of older European city will get caught up in the romance of the history and the ghosts you're surrounded by every day.

It's always nice to be in England - I love it here.

There are stories and history everywhere in London.

I think a lot of people of my generation have a certain guilt that, from the Sixties onwards, we started taking package holidays abroad and neglected our own country.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

In Porto, it's a tourist city. It's close to the river, the ocean as well. There's a lot of history.

I love historical references.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

I just love learning about the past and everything we've been through as people and as a country.

How can it be that we laugh about England's obsession with the royal family? At least the royal family has college degrees and military service.

Other tourists may remember London for its spectacular sights and history, but I remember it for Islam.

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.