Surrey Quotes

• I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

  Cliff Richard

  People, Church, Groups

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• by and by, the cause of my disease
  Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,
  When that I think what grief it is again
  To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Pain, Grief, Thinking

  1557 'Alas! so all things now do hold their peace'.

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• Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

  Patricia Moyes

  Sea, Hints, Far Away

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• I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Beautiful, Village, Quaint

  "Kirsty Gallacher: my Saturday job" by Mark King, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band!
  Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!

  John Betjeman

  Girl, Twilight, Games

  'Subaltern's Love-Song' (1945)

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• What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?” “That’s Pulsifer,” explained Newton. “With a P. I don’t know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey.” The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed.

  Neil Gaiman

  Phones, Names, Voice

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• Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Love, Wall, Flower

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• I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

  Alistair Cooke

  Senior, Country, Golf

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.80, Arcade Publishing

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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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