British Commonwealth Games

Famous quotes containing the words british, commonwealth and/or games:

    “We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.”
    —Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories (1986)

    “We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)