Yorkshire Quotes · Page 2

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

— Jonny Bairstow

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.

— Jonathan Meades

My mother was originally from Yorkshire and I spent a lot of my childhood there.

— Prunella Scales

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.

— Jo Cox

I wanted to feel at home so I've brought Yorkshire Tea Bags in my suitcase, as well as my slippers!

— Michelle Keegan

In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping.

— Sophie Hannah

I live in London. But during lockdown I moved back to Yorkshire with my mum and dad.

— Rosie Jones

I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

— Christina Milian

I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount…

— Patrick Stewart

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell…

— Maggie Stiefvater

All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a…

— Billy Connolly

“Yorkshire had none of the color I'd known in Cape Town- the vivid pinks and purples of the freesias and arum lilies…

— Hazel Gaynor

I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived…

— Sophie Hannah

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was…

— Susanna Clarke

I'm the only one of the family born in Yorkshire. My aunt came down first with her husband and told my mum…

— Jane McDonald

My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the…

— Gordon Ramsay

Henry patted Charlotte’s shoulder anxiously. “Would you like a cool cloth? What can I do to help?” “You could ride up to…

— Cassandra Clare

At least I like to keep it the same. That's why I've got all the same friends. That's why I go back…

— Matthew Lewis

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing…

— Christian Cooke

She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he…

— Sarah MacLean

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as…

— Brian Blessed

I did get the nickname 'craptain' from the Yorkshire dressing room. A bit of banter which I thought was quite funny.

— Joe Root

I've been a waitress for events, but a lady at the Victoria hotel in Yorkshire showed me how to do it properly.

— Vicky Krieps

I grew up in Yorkshire, which is like the Texas of Britain. It's a proud free state and not always liked by…

— Joanna Coles

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his…

— Alastair Campbell

When I came into the Yorkshire academy I was christened Bluey almost immediately.

— Jonny Bairstow

I like Yorkshire terriers. They're good to wash your car with. They fit right in the bucket.

— Billiam Coronel

Well, I moved around quite a lot so I was born in Yorkshire and then I moved to Blackpool, which is like…

— Olly Alexander

I have had an amazingly fortunate life. I'm a child from Yorkshire, which is sort of like Cleveland without the pretty bits.

— Jeremy Clarkson

Every young cricketer from our county dreams of playing for Yorkshire and going on to represent England.

— Jonny Bairstow

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat…

— Helen Fielding

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March…

— James Herriot

I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in…

— Joanne Harris

I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in…

— Sebastian Coe

The whole of Yorkshire has been known throughout the world for various reasons, not least because of Wuthering Heights, but it was…

— Christopher Timothy

Many businesses in Yorkshire want the security and stability of Britain's continued membership of the European Union, a cause I look forward…

— Jo Cox

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish…

— David Mitchell

My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get…

— Brian Blessed

As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think…

— Anna Maxwell Martin

Brexit for me was really interesting because I was in the heart of Yorkshire, which is a "leave" area. It was quite…

— Ruth Wilson