Countryside Quote by Robert Smith

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and…

— Peter Ackroyd

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

— Ben Aaronovitch

My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around…

— Nicola Walker

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

— Jacqueline Bisset

My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time…

— Miranda Raison

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little…

— Ed Westwick

For me, London seemed to be frantic without going anywhere.

— Dick Strawbridge

I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.

— Norman Foster

When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because London's hard. It's a big place,…

— Toby Kebbell

...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work...We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our…

— Ralph Fiennes

“That is the peculiarity of London. There is a sort of cold unfriendliness about it. A city like New York makes the new arrival…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Why do the people you want to be near have to live so far away and you just want to see them everyday.

— Nishan Panwar