Lancashire Quotes

• 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

  Bonus, Way, England

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• 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

  Relationship, Girl, Realizing

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• What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Art, Science

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

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• 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

  Uncles, Dad, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Ruins, Peasants

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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

  Ian Mckellen

  South

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• 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

  Husband, Scotland, Yesterday

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

  Norman Mair

  Sound, Wade, Rugby

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• 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

  Life, Baby, Rugby League

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, India, Cottages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

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• 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

  Beach, Stars, Yankees

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