Lancaster Quotes

• I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

  Robert Mugabe

  Commitment, Agreement, House

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

  100 Copy quote

  Show source

• Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

  Sydney Pollack

  Directors, Becoming, Responsible

  7 Copy quote

• My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

  John Green

  Littles, Faults, Infinity

  8 Copy quote

• Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them. (Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)

  Sophie Kinsella

  Judging, Different, Path

  4 Copy quote

• I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.

  Peter Capaldi

  People, Interesting, Lucky

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

  Kirk Douglas

  People, Wayne, Worst

  Source: www.movieweb.com

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

  Daniel Webster

  Art, War, Years

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.143, Beard Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.

  Andy Serkis

  Art, Years, Firsts

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

  Joan Didion

  Iowa, Land, California

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.31, Zola Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.

  Thomas Pynchon

  America, Darkness, Towns

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Mason & Dixon”, p.432, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.

  Dan Quayle

  Years, Two, One Day

  5 Copy quote

• I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Successful, Accomplishment, Role Models

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

  Kristen Wiig

  New York, School, Years

  Interview with Dave Grohl, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 19, 2011.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

  Manny Farber

  Beach, Directors, Eternity

  4 Copy quote

• I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

  Jonathan Groff

  School, Typical, Pennsylvania

  5 Copy quote

• There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain satisfaction in being elected... but the man who steps into the English Parliament takes his place in a pageant that has ever been filing by since the birth of English history... York or Lancaster, Protestant or Catholic, Court or Country, Roundhead or Cavalier, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Labour or Unionist, they all fit into that long pageant that no other country in the world can show.

  Josiah Wedgwood

  Country, Men, English History

  9 Copy quote

• What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

  John Green

  Names, Grace, Hazel Grace Lancaster

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.226, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

  Sophie Kinsella

  Boys, Names, Age

  4 Copy quote

• In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an art student. I also studied the visual arts at Lancaster University. I then decided to become an actor as he was becoming a musician. And then as an actor/performer, we have similar sort of interests - music hall and that whole world. So, there's a lot that I felt connected with.

  Andy Serkis

  Art, Father, Son

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source