Devon Quotes:

I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.

- Joseph Mawle

topic: School, Play, Devon

Our only objective at the start of the season was to stay in this league and we should do that. If we don't it'll be the Devon Loch of all Devon Lochs.

- Paul Jewell

source: "Roberts and Camara put Wigan in the frame" by Matt Scott, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2005.

topic: League, Devon, Should

Who could forget Malcolm Devon?

- Ted Dexter

topic: Forget, Devon

When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

- DeVon Franklin

source: FaceBook post by DeVon Franklin from Apr 22, 2011

topic: Values, Devon

Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.

- DeVon Franklin

source: FaceBook post by DeVon Franklin from Mar 15, 2013

topic: Sacrifice, Careers, Compromise, Devon

Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.

- DeVon Franklin

source: DeVon Franklin (2011). “Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

topic: Giving Up, Abandon, Devon, Don't Give Up Hope

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

- Dawn French

topic: Cake, Able, My Family, Devon, Cornwall

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

- Henry Williamson

topic: Friends, Father, Flower, Devon

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

- Honor Blackman

topic: Beautiful, Husband, Kids, Devon, Kids Love

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

- Quentin S. Crisp

topic: Sea, Special, Landscape, Devon

[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths, sacred groves of pink anime dryads, Victorian fairy paintings executed by gentlemen in lunatic asylums and so on.

- Quentin S. Crisp

topic: Song, Anime, Men, Devon, Coastline

I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.

- Quentin S. Crisp

topic: Two, Childhood, Connections, Devon

Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large, do not study the workings of the actual economic system. They theorize about it. As Ely Devons, an English economist, once said in a meeting: 'If economists wanted to study the horse, they wouldn't go around and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, `What would I do if I were a horse?' '

- Ronald Coase

topic: Horse, Real, Years, Devon, Economic Systems

I saw a ghost when I was staying at Dartington Hall in Devon in the 1960s. I think there are many different kinds of entities, some are scary and some aren't, it depends on the state of mind you're in when you are confronted. I found that quite scary because it appeared when I was asleep, so it was quite a shock, but the other ones I've encountered, I didn't find scary. I have a lot more understanding of them.

- Martin Shaw

topic: Thinking, Scary, Understanding, Devon

Oh, and I have to mention one lady who does all of my book covers in cross stitch and frames them. Muriel. She's amazing. I just received one for my latest, Love And Dr Devon, actually. It's very sweet of her to do it.

- Alan Titchmarsh

source: Source: www.mirror.co.uk

topic: Devon, Very Sweet, Book Covers

All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Book, Autumn, Bridges, Devon

The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone.

- Nicholas Rodger

topic: Country, Attitude, Home, Devon, Raiding

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

- Chris Martin

topic: Family, Class, Degrees, Devon, Middle Class Family

Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do an extra side project on unreliable narrators." Devon Arliss raised her hand. "what does that mean?" Ezra strode around the room. "well, the narrator tells us the story in the book, right? But what if... the narrator isn't telling us the truth? Maybe he's telling us his skewed version of the story to get you on his side. Or to scare you. Or maybe he's crazy!

- Sara Shepard

topic: Crazy, Book, Reading, Devon

In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.

- Julie Burchill

topic: Husband, Sick, Bags, Devon