John Burns Quotes

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

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

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

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.

Museums, I love museums.

The statues are no big issue. They are only objects made of mud or stone.

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.

I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

… history is that which transforms documents into monuments

The test of greatness is the page of history.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

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…

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

A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul. 'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag, When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.

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

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

Among the earliest modern commodities were printed books … and their shrinking price and increased availability were far more historically momentous than, say, the spread of the internal combustion engine.

Gold is special, and what makes it special is thousands of years of people wanting it..

Good history is a portal to the past.

The context of history proved invaluable.