London Quotes · Page 35

When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.

— Ellie Simmonds

I was a hairstylist in London up until the age of 21, working in Sloane Square.

— Henry Golding

Where I grew up in South East London you became a cab driver or worked in a flower market.

— Rob Beckett

“Kitchener up to London, but could not yet nerve himself”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

— Peter Ackroyd

But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!

— William Shakespeare

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

— Ng Chin Han

I'm intrigued by my own schizoid background which involves Scotland, Ireland and London.

— Jim Kerr

My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor…

— Manny Coto

Brick Lane' is actually a place in London where many Bangladeshis live. It is about one such Bangladeshi immigrant family.

— Satish Kaushik

We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries…

— Mark Walport

Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

— Ouida

But it's funny, I really was quite introverted as a child. I just liked music, so mum and dad bought me a…

— Jane McDonald

The thing is, Finland is such a small country. It only has a population of five million, which is half of London.…

— Saara Aalto

I'm definitely a jeans and sweatshirt girl, fashion was my first love and I will still get excited about London Fashion Week,…

— Angela Scanlon

My great-great-grandfather, who made his money in the jute trade, had at one time 600 houses in London, and within three generations,…

— Saul David

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London,…

— George Best

Spending time in Soweto, and looking at the issues, and experiencing the poverty first-hand, had an enormous impact. I was brought up…

— Gregg Wallace

Well, I'm kind of an urban girl, I like big cities. I like New York, I like London, I like L.A. I…

— AnnaSophia Robb

Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of…

— Joseph Conrad

I was born in London. I moved to New Zealand when I was really young; I can't remember London. My parents went…

— Thomston

I like filming in New York a lot myself, but London is accommodating to me; the weather's very good there and the…

— Woody Allen

The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the…

— Charles Dickens

Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That…

— J. L. Austin

When I drop my son off at school, I love walking around the outskirts of Hampstead Heath.

— Sean Pertwee

I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.

— Clive Owen

I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.

— Ben Lovett

In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.

— Antal Szerb

I could probably live in London if you had better surf.

— Luke Hemsworth

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a lot of Irish in London and have been for years - they're very much a part of the city.

— Brian Gleeson

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

— Caitlin Thomas

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

— John Osborne

Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness.

— Jaime Murray

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

— Sam Riley

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

— Simon Callow

Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.

— Suki Waterhouse

Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't.

— David Starkey

I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.

— Edward Enninful

Living in London is very different to living in a little town in Germany.

— Per Mertesacker