Birkenhead Quotes

#1. I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

Paul O'Grady

#2. at Birkenhead, near Liverpool, designed and built the world's first municipal park. This park so captivated the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted that he modeled Central Park in New York on it.

Bill Bryson

#3. Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Margot Asquith

#4. Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead.

David Coleman

#5. There's only one head bigger than Tony Greig's - and that's Birkenhead

Fred Trueman

#6. Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong ... This [is] mostly BS.

Jeffrey A. Miller

#7. I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

#8. The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

Andrew Weil

#9. The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.

John Eldredge

#10. People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

Jack Canfield

#11. We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

E. J. Dionne

#12. Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

#13. We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

#14. A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

#15. When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.

Jeff Lemire

#16. There is no distance greater than the thickness of a human skull."

2000 Miles for Dinner, Marie Claire

Peter Birkenhead

#17. Service is a selfless deed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.

Miyamoto Musashi