Birmingham Quotes · Page 2

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

— Mary Badham

I like Manchester, Birmingham. I really find this place very nice. Loved Australia. I thought that was awesome.

— Ric Flair

I just didn't feel like there would be a lot of opportunities for me in Birmingham.

— Kim Hawthorne

“The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

I told Birmingham I don't want nothing, I'm not interested in the money.

— Harry Redknapp

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

— Chris Cleave

My record is good with Birmingham and Wigan. Just study the facts.

— Steve Bruce

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days

— Willie Mays

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were…

— Jim Capaldi

If a guy from Birmingham can go out there and beat the so-called pound-for-pound No 1, it will do a lot for…

— Leon Edwards

I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York...it's…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress.…

— April Bloomfield

Birmingham has a nice vibe, I like the energy and I like the people, a lot of different kind of vibes and…

— Skip Marley

It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its…

— Evan Parker

“Birmingham was a dirty industrial city, and from the plane it had a delicate rose-pink aura of pollution, like the chiffon scarf…

— Ken Follett

The only way I'd fight Darren Till is if they came back to Birmingham. We could headline that. Apart from that, he's…

— Leon Edwards

Obviously it's very hard to leave a club that you've supported all your life. But the reason that I've come to Birmingham…

— David Dunn

We have taken a major step forward in providing a new high quality education facility at Longbridge. Not only will the new…

— Mike Murray

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham,…

— John Oliver

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses…

— Louise Brown

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a…

— Willie Mays

Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some…

— Mark Steyn

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you…

— Susanna Phillips

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We come to Birmingham every January for the 'Britain's Got Talent' auditions and always have a great time.

— Declan Donnelly

I was born in Birmingham, and then I moved to Rotterdam when I was about five/six and then came back when I…

— Stefflon Don

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

— Andre Holland

My agent is a Birmingham fan and I don't think Birmingham and Aston Villa get on too well.

— Ivan Toney

I had a fantastic time at Birmingham and I never regret anything that happened there.

— Jack Butland

I accept House of Fraser cannot have 500,000 square feet in Birmingham. Honestly, you would need an Uber to take you round.…

— Mike Ashley

All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy…

— Rob Halford

I love living in Birmingham, it's just a lovely gentle life, and it's calm. And it's full of Brummies who I find…

— Joe Lycett

People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.

— Andrew Aydin

We're a tight-knit city in Birmingham. We have so much around us that brings the people together, no matter who you are…

— Moeen Ali

“I write late into the night at the Tutweiler in downtown Birmingham, and try hard to turn down that second cheeseburger at…

— Rick Bragg

My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not…

— Nick Saban

Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street…

— Phil Ochs

Part of the reason for doing 'Peaky Blinders,' apart from the fact that it was a personal story and I've always wanted…

— Steven Knight

I hardly had any coaching until I joined Birmingham where I had Dave Watson for five years. He's one of the best…

— Jack Butland

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham…

— Charles Hazlewood