Yorkshire Quotes
34 quotes by 29 authors
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One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old…
— William Crawford Williamson
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I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce…
— Alan Titchmarsh
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I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.
— Christina Milian
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All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good…
— Billy Connolly
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I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and…
— Judi Dench
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I like Yorkshire terriers. They're good to wash your car with. They fit right in the bucket.
— Billiam Coronel
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Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each…
— Susanna Clarke
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Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W.…
— Richard Dawkins
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My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
— Sally Phillips
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I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked…
— Helen Fielding
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
— Ben Elton
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My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was…
— Alastair Campbell
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Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.
— Jimmy Carr
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The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
— Lesley Garrett
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I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I…
— Patrick Stewart
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I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down…
— James Herriot
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
— David Hockney
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East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers,…
— David Hockney
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The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
— Joe Strummer
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Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.
— Susanna Clarke
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