Birmingham Quotes

44 Birmingham quotes by 37 unique authors

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear… — Isabel Wilkerson
Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed… — Lewis Nkosi
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 is that I… — David Dunn
I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a… — Steve Winwood
I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and… — Noel Gallagher
After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in… — Paul Nurse
In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the… — Iain Duncan Smith
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I… — John Oliver
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient,… — Neil Gaiman
She's a skank. He's a player. He's cute but almost OD'd last year, so he's a bad bet. She's a two-faced, lying, cheating witch. That's… — Gena Showalter
The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama. — James A. Forbes
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do… — Tom Riley
I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down… — Laura Mvula
My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up. — Mary Badham
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked… — David Harewood
When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and… — Luke Harding
This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do… — Jim Capaldi
It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can… — Evan Parker
They cant get no music, them cant get no cherish. So Woppi King write about him sound system man, and write Count Suckle from Paddington,… — Laurel Aitken

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