Tag - Midlands Quotes

Discover the most impactful and inspirational quotes from the Midlands Quotes category. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone. Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Midlands Quotes will inspire and resonate with you.

Stephen Frears

I’m from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I’m not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we’re all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.

– Stephen Frears

Lenny Henry

It was weird being a kid in the Midlands where outside everybody is white and speaks in a certain way but when you go home nobody speaks that way and everybody looks like you. Every day was this weird threshold crossing.

– Lenny Henry

Laura Mvula

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

John Sulston

On my mother’s side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father’s, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

– John Sulston

John Patrick Shanley

I’m Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn’t own being Irish.

– John Patrick Shanley

John Oliver

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there – I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen’s butler.

– John Oliver

Jason Watkins

My accent… my father’s from Cleethorpes and my mother’s from Manchester and I was born in the Midlands and brought up in London, so I’ve got an element of that.

– Jason Watkins

Goldie

When I was growing up in the 1980s in the Midlands, I felt abandoned and misunderstood. Then I chose drum ‘n’ bass and graffiti as my subcultures – which didn’t really help.

– Goldie

Goldie

I grew up in Wolverhampton, but I was moved around the Midlands because I was in the care system.

– Goldie

Emile Heskey

Im from the East Midlands, and when I was playing youth team football, it was in the U18 Midlands league and Villa were the biggest team.

– Emile Heskey

Ellie Simmonds

I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.

– Ellie Simmonds

Betty Boothroyd

We fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire, when I grew up I fought fascists in the West Midlands in the form of the National Front.

– Betty Boothroyd

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