Council Estate Quotes

#1. Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

Noel Gallagher

#2. The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

V.S. Naipaul

#3. Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.

Bill Buford

#4. When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from the council estate into our own house and for the first time in my life, I had a little spare money.

Derek Ridgers

#5. Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Michelle Obama

#6. I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.

Amanda Hale

#7. I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

Tinie Tempah

#8. I grew up on a council estate in Luton, and as a child, I was very much into the brass-band tradition. I was basically a Salvation Army boy. My English granddad bought me a cornet when I was five years old.

Colin Salmon

#9. I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.

Colin Cooper

#10. Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

Caitlin Moran

#11. I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.

Bruce Weber

#12. All authors to their own defects are blind.

John Dryden

#13. Aggression like this demanded slinging the first punch in a bar brawl, firing rounds at a range, or setting a car on fire.

Katherine McIntyre

#14. In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

Les Baxter

#15. Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

Marcus Aurelius

#16. You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

William Shakespeare

#17. Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#18. In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

Les Wexner

#19. To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse ...

Zhuangzi