Birmingham Quotes

“I don’t think anyone goes to Birmingham,”

— Heide Goody

I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.

— Jess Phillips

I would love to bring the UFC back to Birmingham.

— Leon Edwards

Birmingham is my second home.

— Christopher Timothy

I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.

— Elaine Stritch

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

— Steven Knight

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

— Jane Austen

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

— Tony Wilson

We are representing the country and we are doing it from Birmingham.

— Leon Edwards

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

— Condoleezza Rice

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

— Lee Child

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

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

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 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

Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced…

— Malcolm X

I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it…

— Tamsin Greig

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Louise Brown

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

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

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“They have never put it into words, they cannot; but each absence is a threat. They never felt this way in New…

— James Baldwin

I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my…

— Condoleezza Rice

South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white…

— June Jordan

I remember I played Birmingham and I'd been awake for about a week and I was walking about like a raving lunatic.

— Gerry Cinnamon

The first live gig I ever saw was Johnny Cash at the Birmingham Odeon in 1971. I was 14 and went with my dad.

— Frank Skinner

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

— Winston Churchill

We have a fabulous civil rights history here in Birmingham.

— Luther Strange

I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. Nobody really blow up from Birmingham, Ala.

— YBN Nahmir

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

— Paul Merson

Work is in London, but my heart will always be in Birmingham.

— Alison Hammond

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

— Willie Mays