Bristol Quotes

• The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

  Carol Vorderman

  Running, Real, Kids

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• Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

  Beth Gibbons

  Sound, Aviation, Corny

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• The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

  Roald Dahl

  House, Bed, Comfort

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.90, Penguin

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• Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Agents, Ambassadors, Politics

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

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• Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

  John Polkinghorne

  Years, Class, Village

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• Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good.

  Simon Price

  Creativity, Cool Places

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Air, Swings, Sea

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• I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

  Brian Blessed

  Dream, Father, Military

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• Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Parliament, Members, Assembly

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• I can tell you why I like different countries. Ireland - some of the funniest heckles I've ever gotten. And the last time I did England I did Bristol, Manchester, and then London. The whole country is just amazing to drive through.

  Bill Burr

  Country, Different, London

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

  Tom Stoppard

  Birthday, Party, Play

  "Tom Stoppard: Information is light" by Tom Stoppard, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half.

  Anthony Adamson

  Football, Goal, Half

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• I would much rather end up a fertiliser under a sunflower which is eventually made into sunflower seed oil so that instead of nibbling me in her prawn cocktail, the pretty girl will rub me on her bristols as she suns herself on a beach in the Caribbean.

  Oliver Reed

  Girl, Beach, Oil

  Oliver Reed (1979). “Reed all about me: the autobiography of Oliver Reed”, W.H. Allen

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• This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

  David Nicholls

  Cities, Edinburgh, Sound

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• Republican presidential hopeful Mike Hucka-BS is attacking actress Natalie Portman for getting pregnant without being married. It could get a little awkward if he runs into Sarah and Bristol Palin at Fox News.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Hopeful, Presidential

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• As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: 'Love has no ending. 'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, 'I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Ocean, Love You

  Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening"

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• Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

  Hugo Weaving

  Kids, Parent, West

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