Bradford Quotes:

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

- Bradford Dillman

topic: Names, Phony, Bradford

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

- David Hockney

source: Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

topic: Hollywood, Bradford, Wells

I am asexual. A-sexual. I read somewhere, maybe on Facebook, where somebody said something like, "I heard Bradford was gay, but then I heard he was bi." Then somebody wrote, "No, I heard he was asexual." And then somebody said, "That's bullshit - he totally hit on my friend after a show."

- Bradford Cox

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Gay, Bullshit, Bradford

My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.

- Aasif Mandvi

source: "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

topic: Jobs, Father, Opportunity, Bradford, Coal Mining

I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

- Aasif Mandvi

source: "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

topic: Moving, America, Culture, Bradford, Humdrum

Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced - getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.

- Aasif Mandvi

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: School, Kids, Home, Bradford, After School

Stop and think of what happened in America. The melting pot, yeah, it happened. Stop and think of what happened, from the first days of the founding. You have to go back to the Pilgrims. You have to include the Pilgrims in the founding. Why they came. What they learned on the way. What they learned after they got here. The Pilgrims, like everybody else, tried to establish a socialist collective. Bombed out. Didn't work. We know this, the governor wrote about it himself, William Bradford.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Thinking, America, Way, Bradford, Melting Pot

I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.

- Kirk Cameron

topic: Moving, Inspiration, Hero, Bradford, Braveheart

I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.

- Natalia Kills

topic: Cities, People, England, Bradford