Northern England Quotes

My mother was originally from Yorkshire and I spent a lot of my childhood there.

I'm Lancashire by name, and Lancashire was where I grew up - in Oldham.

My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful.

It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.

I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's a modern city.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England.

North of England, you're brought up on fish and chips. Friday or Saturdays every week, it was a treat.

I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

I'm still very much a Northerner. I try to have chips and gravy twice a week.

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'

Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

There is not much sun, but I didn't move to Manchester to go to the beach.

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

Well, I moved around quite a lot so I was born in Yorkshire and then I moved to Blackpool, which is like North England.

The impact of Brexit is likely to be slow and incremental, hardly the sudden transformation that some Leave voters wanted. Immigrants will not disappear, and manufacturing will not immediately return to northern-English cities - quite the contrary.

I was born in Leeds, grew up in Bridlington.

I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.

I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe.

When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.