Norwich Quotes

• We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.

  Paul Ince

  Eight, Two Sides, Giving

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• Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, School, Winning

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• I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

  Philip Pullman

  Zimbabwe, Australia, England

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• Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

  William Cobbett

  Cities, Majestic, Castles

  William Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett (1853). “Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively”, p.52

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• I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.

  Wally Lamb

  Grew Up, Connecticut, Persons

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of a pleasure and privilege to know her as a person as it is to translate her work. She's been over for two UK publicity tours, which means lots of time to chat on trains etc., and she was hear all last summer for a writer's residency in Norwich, where I got to meet her son too.

  Deborah Smith

  Summer, Mean, Good Friend

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In the tradition of Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila and all the other mystics, we can learn to render ourselves vulnerable to the "favors of God" - those indescribable experiences that mock our dualisms and so saturate our imagination with abundance that they transcend our ability to convey joy and wonder. In the tradition of St. John of the Cross, we can learn to survive and derive benefits from the soul's dark night.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Dark, Night, Imagination

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• What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

  J. B. Priestley

  Old Places, Sensible

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• For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

  Robert Southey

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• Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

  Thomas Browne

  Bees, Three, Vagabonds

  Sir Thomas Browne (1968). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence”

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• I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

  Beth Orton

  Pigs, Cities, London

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

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• A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

  Adrian Desmond

  Men, Thinking, Littles

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• The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.

  Jonathan Raban

  Real, Sea, Rivers

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• Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.

  Stephen Fry

  Football, Team, Winning

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• Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple of Premiership appearances as a sub before being released to Norwich, in what was then Division One. In November the chance to be player-manager of Barnet came up and soon Cottee was playing in Division Three, but alas it did not work out. By March he was again looking for work and found it, with two sub appearances, at Millwall in Division Two.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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• Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Games, League

  Twitter post from Apr 6, 2014

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• The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got

  Jimmy Greaves

  Soccer, Goal, Funny Soccer

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• Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.

  Ashley Judd

  Success, Spiritual, Morning

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• Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.

  Steve Coogan

  Christmas, Jesus, Years

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