Yorkshire Quotes

• 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 from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

  James Herriot

  Morning, Spring, Wind

  James Herriot (2011). “Every Living Thing”, p.7, Open Road Media

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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 spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!

  Patrick Stewart

  Sheep, Elephants, Cows

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• And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

  Ben Elton

  Signatures, Pudding, Beef

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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 was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

  Judi Dench

  Eggs, Tea, Able

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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

  Dog, Two, Chihuahua

  "Christina Milian music maven". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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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, not rivers. So it is unusual.

  David Hockney

  Rivers, East, Valleys

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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

  Luxury Hotels, Giving, Room Service

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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 that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of 'Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Growing Up, Carbon Emissions, Wish

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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 large animals.

  Alastair Campbell

  Dog, Dad, Cat

  "Alastair Campbell: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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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 in beef dripping.

  Helen Fielding

  White, Beef, Tomatoes

  "Chat with author Helen Fielding". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2000.

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• My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

  Brian Blessed

  Team, Father, Men

  "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

  Lesley Garrett

  Musical, Heritage, Wide

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• I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.

  Sophie Hannah

  Jobs, Husband, College

  "Sophie Hannah: 'It's surprising how many poems turn out to be about sex'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.

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• You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

  Brian Clough

  Sunday, Night, Want

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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 other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or twoquestions to Minervois in his own language. 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

  Two, Rivals, Dutch

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.698, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Henry patted Charlotte’s shoulder anxiously. “Would you like a cool cloth? What can I do to help?” “You could ride up to Yorkshire and chop that old goat’s head off.” Charlotte sounded mutinous. “Won’t that make things rather awkward with the Clave?” asked Henry. “They’re not generally very receptive about, you know, beheadings and things.

  Cassandra Clare

  Awkward, Goats, Helping

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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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. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).

  Richard Dawkins

  Jesus, Mass Destruction, Voice

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.

  Sarah MacLean

  Jealous, Long, Water

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• As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

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• My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It's because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Home, School, Pie

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• My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get better for at least six months, so I left school early to become the family breadwinner.

  Brian Blessed

  Dad, Team, Believe

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• My big toe alone is the size of Yorkshire.

  Andrew Marr

  Toes, Size, Bigs

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• My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memorable, Adventure, Sea

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.

  Jonathan Meades

  Running, Self, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm from a little town called Settle in North Yorkshire, so it's amazing that I get to travel everyday and I get to see such crazy sh*t everyday.

  John Newman

  Crazy, Everyday, Littles

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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