Quotes About Hackney

#1. Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London

Meg Hillier

#2. I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.

Asif Kapadia

#3. Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

Lily James

#4. Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.

Iain Sinclair

#5. My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

Diane Abbott

#6. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Alexander Pope

#7. A man must serve his time to every trade,
Save censure-critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote
With just enough learning to misquote ...

Lord Byron

#8. I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

Iain Sinclair

#9. I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

Iain Sinclair

#10. I am, and always will be, proud to be a Hackney girl.

Leona Lewis

#11. Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

Sharon Horgan

#12. To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).

George Herbert

#13. Vowels Irish marks long vowels with an accent; short vowels have no accent. Here are the main vowel sounds:

Ryan Hackney

#14. When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

Jerry Doyle

#15. Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced - an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced to 6 million in 1851. At least 1 million of those people had died. The rest fled the country, hoping for a new life in another land.

Ryan Hackney

#16. Here they resided, two worldviews separated only by Fifth Avenue, facing off until the end of time or the end of Manhattan, whichever came first.

Amor Towles

#17. There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

Rupert Graves

#18. Cholera was always a problem in unsanitary, crowded conditions; it broke out in workhouses throughout the famine years. When

Ryan Hackney

#19. Most of the first voluntary Irish immigrants came from Ulster in the north of Ireland. These immigrants were generally, although not exclusively, Protestants. They were known as "Scotch-Irish" or "Scots Irish,

Ryan Hackney

#20. The Irish mingled their Christianity with folk beliefs in fairies and changelings.

Ryan Hackney

#21. Leave the table hungry. Leave the bed sleepy. Leave the table thirsty. Here

Ryan Hackney

#22. Imagine their mom's surprise to find out not one, but both of her sons were gay.

Riley Hart

#23. O, gentle lady, do not put me to't,/ For I am nothing, if not critical.

William Shakespeare

#24. It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. If

Ryan Hackney

#25. Potatoes came to Europe from the New World in the early sixteenth century. Sir Francis Drake is thought to have introduced the potato to England, and shortly afterward Sir Walter Raleigh tried planting them on his Irish estates. When

Ryan Hackney

#26. The malnourished Irish were very vulnerable to diseases. In fact, more people died from illness than from actual starvation. Typhus

Ryan Hackney

#27. The first volume of Irish folktales was Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, published in 1825 by Thomas Croker from Cork.

Ryan Hackney

#28. I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

Jimmy Kimmel

#29. You can't swing a cat in Ireland without hitting a saint.

Ryan Hackney

#30. You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.

Katherine Applegate

#31. And if you can't go to heaven, May you at least die in Ireland.

Ryan Hackney

#32. Life becomes easy for people who respond to the demands of life.

Sunday Adelaja

#33. Good though his eyesight was, however, he would have been unlikely to spot the Stanley knife being turned rhythmically between long, fine fingers.

Robert Galbraith

#34. Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

Rob Zombie

#35. Interestingly, some of the worst anti-Irish discrimination came from the Scotch-Irish, who wanted to make clear that they were a different group from the impoverished newcomers.

Ryan Hackney