49 Birmingham Quotes for You to Enjoy

We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham. John Vane

Age School King Birmingham State Local High High School Attended Edward Five Where Suburb Then Lived

I love my home state and my hometown. I'm so grateful to Birmingham and Alabama for what it made me. Jordan Fisher

Love Home Me Grateful Made Birmingham State Home State Alabama Hometown

I just didn't feel like there would be a lot of opportunities for me in Birmingham. Kim Hawthorne

Me Opportunities Birmingham Would Would-Be Feel Like Lot Just

I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard. Laura Mvula

School First Down Films Birmingham Harry Harry Potter Some Potter Pieces Schools Concert Hall Parts Were Orchestra Really Hard Travelled Played Albert Royal Last Night Last Night Violin Violinist

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. Lee Child

Made Birmingham Well Up Where Grew Them Useful Things

Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights. It had left us ill-prepared for decisions that had to be made in our own time about Algeria, Birmingham, or the Bay of Pigs. Lorraine Hansberry

When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain. Luke Harding

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My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up. Mary Badham

Theatre Mother Birmingham Local Leading Up Where Lady Grew Alabama

When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box. Max Walker

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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here. Nick Saban

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. Roland Gift

Myself Me People Made Big Birmingham Indian Indian People Redding Sing Around Were West Lot Up Person Wanna Influences Reggae While Who Growing Growing Up Early

I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn't feel allegiance to anything. I didn't have working-class pride or upper-class superiority. Stewart Lee

Good Pride Comedy Edge Birmingham Good Place Allegiance Superiority Write Feel Up Upper-Class Grew Anything Place Then Working-Class

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career. Susanna Phillips

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show. Tom Riley

Degree Birmingham Drama Directed Could Had Knew Stuff Wrote Friends Bunch Article North Did Literature Theater Show England English Radio English Literature Company Started Plays University

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it. Willie Mays

I've been banging on about doing stuff in Birmingham for years and years, and everyone says 'We can't, it's the accent thing.' For some reason it's a very difficult accent to get right, harder even than Geordie. Steven Knight

Part of the reason for doing 'Peaky Blinders,' apart from the fact that it was a personal story and I've always wanted to do it, was what was great I felt is that Birmingham is probably the least fashionable city in Britain. Steven Knight

Great Birmingham City Fact Part Blinders Felt Always Least Doing Personal Wanted Story Personal Story Apart Reason Fashionable Britain

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel. Steven Knight

History Birmingham Cotton Steel Iron Manchester Wool

If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most important part of my identity. I'm not always sure I feel English or British, but I always feel like a Brummie. Jess Phillips

Me You Woman Important Single Birmingham Others Say Would I Feel Part Bleed Feel Like Most Identity Sure Important Part Always Coming Being Cut English British

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