Hackney Quotes
The best sayings about Hackney that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest. He seemed to be having a difficult time negotiating Alexia's multiple layers of skirts and ruffles, which formed a particularly efficacious barrier in the tight confines of the hackney.
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The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.
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Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.
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The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the common eye. Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed; Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread. This is a general tax which all must pay, From those who scribble, down to those who play.
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This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
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Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London
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As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?
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My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
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I am, and always will be, proud to be a Hackney girl.
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To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).
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A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.
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The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of course there's also the West End with its brilliant theatres and thriving tourism but to also have areas like Hackney which are so community based but not exclusive, that remind you that those surrounding you are the most important, is what makes London what it is.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.
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Top Authors
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Omar Epps Actor -
Patrick Bergin Actor -
Pam W. Vredevelt Author -
Pamela Dean Author -
Ozzie Guillen Baseball player -
Pamela Geller Blogger -
Patsy Yvonne Helen Swayze Choreographer -
Omar Hamoui Entrepreneur -
Patricia Wentworth Fiction writer -
Parker Posey Film actress -
Pat Summerall Football player -
Oscar Goodman Former Mayor of Las Vegas -
Pascal Couchepin Former Member of the Swiss Federal Council
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Patricia Schroeder Former United States Representative -
Oliver Cowdery Founding Figure -
Otl Aicher Graphic Designer -
Page McConnell Multi-instrumentalist -
Norman Mailer Novelist -
Octave Feuillet Novelist -
Olavo de Carvalho Philosopher -
Patch Adams Physician -
Patience Strong Poet
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Oscar Gutierrez Professional Wrestler -
Patrick Rafter Tennis player -
Nydia Velazquez United States Representative -
Pascal Bruckner Writer -
Pashko Vasa Writer -
Patricia Powell Writer
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