Alice Morse Earle
Alice Morse Earle

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold

I don't think estates are grim places.

Andrew Flintoff
Andrew Flintoff

Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I'd never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I'd have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

Few escape our most deprived estates. Few young people with potential escape difficult upbringings. Fewer cross the social divides.

Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

Declan Donnelly
Declan Donnelly

I think Ant and I were ambitious because of where we come from. Both of us are from working-class families on council estates in Newcastle.

Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

Douglas Reed
Douglas Reed

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

George Monbiot
George Monbiot

We have a wider political and economic system in which ancient, landed power still carries immense weight. There is nothing some landowners would like more than to set the police on those who dare to venture into their vast estates.