Birmingham City Quotes

#1. Birmingham City Council was playing third time lucky with the design of the city's celebrated Victoria Square ...

Tom Holt

#2. One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Jane Austen

#3. I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

Charles Hazlewood

#4. Birmingham was a dirty industrial city, and from the plane it had a delicate rose-pink aura of pollution, like the chiffon scarf around the neck of an old prostitute.

Ken Follett

#5. Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD in the presence of Eli. g And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.

Anonymous

#6. I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they gave right back to me.

Dee Dee Ramone

#7. Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

Neil Gaiman

#8. I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff.

Mark Billingham

#9. I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.

Jim Crace

#11. I understood him. He wanted to die at home. He didn't want to be going someplace all the time for the sake of a hopeless hope. He wanted to die as himself out of his life. He didn't want his death to be the end of a technological process.

Wendell Berry

#12. A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings ... And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

Stephen Birmingham

#13. Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

Greg Bryk

#14. Each day we stood almost shoulder to shoulder, occupying the same space, breathing the same air, but we remained strangers.

M.A. Stacie