Surrey Quotes

• I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

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  Kirsty Gallacher

  Beautiful   Village   Quaint  

  "Kirsty Gallacher: my Saturday job" by Mark King, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.

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• I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

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  Alistair Cooke

  Senior   Country   Golf  

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.80, Arcade Publishing

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• I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

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  Cliff Richard

  People   Church   Groups  

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• What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?” “That’s Pulsifer,” explained Newton. “With a P. I don’t know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey.” The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed.

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  Neil Gaiman

  Phones   Names   Voice  

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• Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

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  Hugo Weaving

  Kids   Parent   West  

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• by and by, the cause of my disease Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting, When that I think what grief it is again To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.

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  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Pain   Grief   Thinking  

  1557 'Alas! so all things now do hold their peace'.

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• Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

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  Eleanor Perenyi

  Love   Wall   Flower  

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• Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

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  Patricia Moyes

  Sea   Hints   Far Away  

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• Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band! Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!

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  John Betjeman

  Girl   Twilight   Games  

  'Subaltern's Love-Song' (1945)

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