Regional Pride Quotes

The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.

People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.

The people of Northern Italy are the most civilized people I have ever met.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I have roots in Jabalpur and that's as Indian as it can get.

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show.

I am a typical Telugu boy dominated by all the qualities of a Hyderabadi because I was born and brought up here.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

I'm from North Carolina, so I am really picky about my fried chicken.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either.

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

I love all the Imperial Valley, man.

I'm a kid from Boston.

Arkansas Comes First.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

Southern hospitality, that's where I come from.