Lancashire Quotes:

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.

- Ian Mckellen

topic: Lancashire

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

topic: India, Ruins, Lancashire

I'm just looking forward to playing, and if anything else comes my way it's a bonus. I'm looking to have an injury-free season and doing things for Lancashire to get us where we belong.

- Stuart Law

topic: Bonus, Way, England, Lancashire

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

- David Thewlis

topic: Relationship, Girl, Realizing, Lancashire

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Beautiful, Art, Men, Ancient World, Modern Science

I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

- Rick Astley

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Uncles, Dad, Kids, Fish And Chips, Lancashire

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

- Penelope Keith

topic: Husband, Scotland, Yesterday, Lancashire, Burrs

Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

- Norman Mair

topic: Wade, Sound, Rugby, Sheriffs, Lancashire

In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

- Colin Welland

topic: Baby, Play, League, Fair Play, Playing Rugby

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

topic: Order, India, Cottages, Lancashire

When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee.' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.

- Tracie Bennett

topic: Beach, Stars, Yankees, Daytona, Skylines