Norfolk Quotes

• You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be loved.

  Stephen Fry

  Oddities, Lovely, Roughness

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• I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.

  Raffaella Barker

  Sunset, Sea, Sky

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• A whispering and watery Norfolk sound
  Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

  John Betjeman

  Whispering, Reeds, Sound

  John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.15, A&C Black

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• I am still reeling with delight at the soaring majesty of Norfolk.

  John Betjeman

  Delight, Majesty, Soar

  John Betjeman (1994). “Letters: 1951 to 1984”

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• I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

  Horatio Nelson

  Men, Glory

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• I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.

  Harry Mathews

  Virginia, Said

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• The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

  Jeremy Northam

  Love, Peace, Light

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• I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

  Honor Blackman

  Beautiful, Husband, Kids

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• My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

  Paul Nurse

  Mother, Father, Years

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• The less said the better.

  Jane Austen

  Said

  Jane Austen, Jane Kendall (1942). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.54, Dramatic Publishing

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• Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

  Beth Orton

  Somewhere Else, Effort, Want

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Half, Paradox

  Virginia Woolf, Jan Morris (1993). “Travels with Virginia Woolf”, Random House (UK)

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• See the mice in their million hordes
  From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

  David Bowie

  Ibiza, Broads, Mice

  Song: Life On Mars?

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• But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.' 'The lost corner of England,' I said.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  One Day, England, Lost

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.155, Faber & Faber

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• Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.

  John Betjeman

  Country, Jewels, Missing

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• The Norfolk landscape sends a shiver through my soul.

  Raffaella Barker

  Soul, Landscape, Shiver

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• My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.

  Alexander McQueen

  Beautiful, Fashion, Beach

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• I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Beach, Yoga, Long Walks

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• I was enrolled to attend Norfolk State University and then my career kind of kicked off.

  MC Lyte

  Careers, Kind, States

  "MC Lyte's Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Interview with MC Lyte, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.

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• Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mean, Home, Gun

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• I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Weather, Hollywood, Heart Strings

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• Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Father, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

  Beth Orton

  Pigs, Cities, London

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

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• I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to treat a fox that had been brought in with a shooting injury. The answer from a vet who had worked there for many years was, Not once. When I asked him why, he said,You can take it from me that when the fox is shot in the countryside by somebody trained, it is dead.

  Ian Cawsey

  Hunting, Years, Vets

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• There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

  William Henry Hudson

  Sea, Green, Woods

  William Henry Hudson (1964). “Birds and Green Places: A Selection from the Writings of W.H. Hudson”

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