Quotes About Lancashire

#1. Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

Norman Mair

#2. I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.

Ian McKellen

#3. I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.

M. John Harrison

#4. In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

Colin Welland

#5. When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee.' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.

Tracie Bennett

#6. It is a Lancashire custom to be on the defensive. We anticipate jokes about rain, "bi gum," and Wigan; we expect people to peer at us through the thin layer of smoke they fancy they see around our heads.

Sylvia Lovat Corbridge

#7. I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. I'm just looking forward to playing, and if anything else comes my way it's a bonus. I'm looking to have an injury-free season and doing things for Lancashire to get us where we belong.

Stuart Law

#9. Long ago, before England was cut up with pavement, or bisected by railways, there existed in the county of Lancashire a small village named Reston that never bothered anyone.

Kate Noble

#10. I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'

David Thewlis

#11. The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

Penelope Keith

#13. I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

Rick Astley

#14. I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

Moliere

#15. My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

Sarah Lancashire

#16. Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.

Sarah Lancashire

#17. I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.

Sandra Cisneros

#18. Altogether, a pleasant place, marred by activities of unpleasant people whose qualities, perhaps, are sad reflections of sadder environments.

Walter Greenwood

#19. It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

C.S. Lewis

#20. I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

Shirley Manson

#21. Never expect owt for nowt.

Sylvia Lovat Corbridge

#22. The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.

Humphrey Bogart

#23. To us, dinner is a meal eaten at mid-day. Tea is a secondary meal of a substantial nature taken when we get home between five and six o'clock. Supper is a hot drink and "a bit of summat to eat" at bedtime.

Sylvia Lovat Corbridge