Best Leeds Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Dream big, dream local—unless your dad’s a politician, then Leeds might call!”

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“I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.”

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Author:Carol Vorderman

“At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.”

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Author:Leon Jouhaux

“I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.”

Said Building Program Green Leeds

Author:Frank Gehry

“I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Courses Difficult Minutes Tests Twenties Enjoyed Endurance Survived Mud One Minute Huts Leeds

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I'd go back to Leeds at any time, but not right now.”

Right Now Leeds

Author:Gus Poyet

“Leeds are enjoying more possession now that they have the ball.”

Enjoy Football Balls Possession Commentators Leeds

Author:Simon Brotherton

“I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.”

Years Jobs Used College Husband Fellows University Used To Be My Husband Realised Gave Up Lecturer Lucy Yorkshire Leeds Commoners

Author:Sophie Hannah

“I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.”

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Author:Sam Riley

“Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them”

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Author:George Best

“My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.”

Years Different Shows Father Careers Streets Reactions Journalist Employers Leeds Fleet Street

Author:Lionel Barber

“I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)”

Fronts Football Grew Grew Up Violent Fascists Leeds

Author:Charles Stross

“My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.”

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Author:Alan Bennett

“It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.”

Hard Black Wonderful Holy Contrast Like Something Frost Cambridge Holy Grail Leeds

Author:Alan Bennett

“I just went into the studio and did it all in one take. All I was thinking about was the next record; I had already sourced the tracks I wanted to use. I'd been thinking a lot about it and I wanted to represent myself, Leeds and fabric. I'm not very nationalistic, but I wanted to represent what was coming out of Britain as well as at the moment there's a lot of really good new music.”

Thinking Wells Moments Use Wanted Next Records Track Studios Britain Coming Out Fabric New Music Nationalistic Leeds

Author:Ralph Lawson

“People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.”

People Done Sides Cities Five Fields Edges Miles Realising Urban Centre Leeds

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.”

Ifs Needs Dies Liberty Battle Confidence In God Have Confidence Leeds

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.”

“All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.”

Long Reading Summer Festivals Leeds

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.”

Narrow-minded Leeds

Author:John Newman

“It can be the level of sexual assault is relatively low. What was described on the plane by Ms. Leeds, it would very likely satisfy that definition. She said that he reached under her skirt and fondled and groped her. That type of thing would satisfy the definition for sexual assault.”

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Author:Megyn Kelly

“The interesting thing is it's outside the statute of limitations for a civil suit by Leeds. It's actually is not outside of the statute of limitations under the criminal side. Because it occurred on an airplane and federal law doesn't have a statute of limitations I know off for that particular offense.”

Knows Law Sides Interesting Particular Criminals Suits Limitation Airplane Offense Interesting Things Statutes Leeds

Author:Megyn Kelly

“I am happy being based in Leeds, I feel settled.”

Feels Leeds

Author:Lucy Pargeter

“A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.”

Country Hard Found Bananas Leeds

Author:Terry Pratchett

“My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.”

Names Mad Sane Hallucinations Leeds

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.”

Ifs Running Kids Names Runners Leeds

Author:Sebastian Coe

“Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.”

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Author:Jonathan Woodgate

“They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less.”

Used Winning Bits Goal United Football Used To Be Arsenal Leeds

Author:Nasser Hussain

“I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens.”

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Author:Ken Bates

“I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is, quite simply, nowhere to go after that. There has never been a more horrible football team. The Leeds of the Seventies were found guilty, week in, week out, of crimes against humanity.”

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Author:Giles Smith

“One day in 1959, when Huddersfield were playing Cardiff City, Tom (T.V.) Williams, who was then chairman of Liverpool, and Harry Latham, a director, came down the slope at Leeds Road to see me. Mr Williams said, 'How would you like to manage the best club in the country?' 'Why, is Matt Busby packing it up?' I asked.”

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Author:Bill Shankly

“There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six”

Six Moved Soccer Division Funny Soccer Leeds

Author:Fred Dinenage

“I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.”

Want Believe Has Beens Important Might Together Next Winning Player Seasons Sells Leeds

Author:Robbie Keane

“At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.”

World Form Boys Caught Clubs Cups Ireland Caught Up Fever World Cup Leeds

Author:Robbie Keane

“We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.”

Games Trials Owners Boss Leeds Middlesbrough

Author:Craig Johnston

“I wol yow telle, as was me taught also, The foure spirites and the bodies sevene, By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene. The firste spirit quiksilver called is, The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis, Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon. The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon: Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe, Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe, Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin, And Venus coper, by my fader kin!”

Body Science Spirit Lord Taught Moon Gold Silver Iron Mars Venus Tin Jupiter Hem Leeds

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.”

Thinking I Can Remember Band London Manchester Welsh Leeds

Author:Graham Coxon

“People say you're too good - you're never too good to go down, believe me. I've seen it at Leeds. We had a better team at Leeds than we have now and they went down eventually.”

People Believe Player Team Football Soccer Believe In Me Leeds

Author:Jonathan Woodgate

“Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.”

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Author:Melanie Brown

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