41 Yorkshire Quotes for You to Enjoy

When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers. Dan Jenkins

Home You Vote People Old College Young Painting Too Enough Stately All People Adult Look Until Cheerleaders Limp Wall Closely Yorkshire Hanging Old Enough Your England Resemble Appears

When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body deal with lactic acid. But you don't need to make it too complicated. Yorkshire is perfect because the hills work as intervals - you ride up them hard and then recover before the next one. Or you can just sprint to the next tree or lamppost. Alistair Brownlee

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The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school. Angus Deaton

Time Man School Father Few Young Spent High Mining High School Only Allowed He Mostly Repairing Go His Up Yorkshire Children Grew Which Young Man Them Deprivation Much Village Night

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives. Brian Blessed

Me Man Father Closed Down Saved Heroic He Opening Bowler Because South Yorkshire Form Coal Team Union Helped Many Village Fast Lives Gas Played Second

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. David Hockney

Beautiful Dramatic West Yorkshire Quite Things

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship. David Mitchell

Great Me Poet First Become Publish Would About He Invite Read Anthology Hughes Yorkshire Going Decided Meat Ted

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English. Elsa Peretti

Strong Tea Like Very Yorkshire English

A lot of wasted energy in my life has been spent on sorting out problems and issues at Yorkshire cricket. Of course, I know I made mistakes along the way, but I care passionately about the club - I always have done and always will. Geoffrey Boycott

Life Problems Care Will Made My Life Mistakes Club Energy Cricket Way Spent Out Has-Been About Along Know Course Sorting Always Issues Passionately Been Lot Yorkshire Done Wasted

During the time I didn't play for England, they were losing Test matches, and the Yorkshire committee were telling me that I should be batting for my country. Then, when I decided to make myself available to play for England again in 1977, and Yorkshire lost a couple of matches in my absence, they criticised me for not being there. Geoffrey Boycott

Time Myself Me Losing Country Lost Batting Telling Absence Couple Make Matches Test Were Yorkshire Committee Being Decided Again Available Then Should England Being There Play

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. Helen Fielding

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. James Herriot

A Yorkshire coal mine during the war was my first workplace. I was 18, and when I was called up, I thought I'd go into the RAF. But my number got pulled out of Ernest Bevin's hat, and I went down the pit as a Bevin boy to replace all the able-bodied miners who went to war. Jimmy Savile

Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously stripping them of the resources to deliver and subjecting northern councils such as Kirklees to the harshest of cuts, is not compatible with a worthy commitment to building a northern powerhouse to drive growth and prosperity. Jo Cox

Commitment Prosperity Drive Fools Power Building Resources Stripping Cities Worthy Folk About Deliver Simultaneously Powerhouse Talk Yorkshire Northern While Regions Them Cuts Compatible Growth

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages. Jo Cox

Gathering Independent Towns Proud Yorkshire Villages

At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and it was just for kids. I read it every week. And I got paid for it. So I thought... 'I can actually do this. I can get paid to write, and this is going to be fine.' I wrote several pieces for them. Joanna Coles

Age Post Thought First Every Several Kids Fine Week Write Had Part Piece Pieces Wrote Read Known Got Junior Get Yorkshire Going Just Which Them Paid Published Actually

I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact. Joanne Harris

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I'm never going to stop making theatre, but I don't think I'll make it as much, because I don't need to. There are other things I want to do with my life. I want to sit by the sea in Yorkshire and eat Eccles cakes and spend time with my family. John Tiffany

I cannot stand when you go to a wedding and get fed tiny portions. I want everyone to have a good feed on my wedding day, so I plan on having several types of sausage, mash, and gravy up for grabs. Every guest will have a Yorkshire pudding, too! Jon Richardson

Good Day You Will Every Too Types Everyone Guest Several Wedding Having Fed Mash Feed Go Up Get Yorkshire Tiny Want Cannot Plan Stand Portions Pudding Gravy Sausage

Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred. Jonny Bairstow

First Before Hundred Had Got Yorkshire Fifties Even

I've always tried to honour my dad and what he did for Yorkshire, which for him frequently meant putting the county's cause before his own. But my late boyhood, my early teens and my adolescence were full of net sessions and practice drills he never witnessed, ups and downs he never knew about and matches he never saw. Jonny Bairstow

Cause Ups And Downs Practice Before Own Late Teens Saw Honour Tried About Net Adolescence Drills Never He Knew Putting County Him Frequently Matches Witnessed Always Boyhood Were His Did Yorkshire Ups Which Meant Full Dad Downs Early

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