Surrey Quotes:

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

- Cliff Richard

topic: People, Church, Groups, Surrey, Local Church

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.

- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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

topic: Pain, Grief, Thinking, Surrey

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.

- Patricia Moyes

topic: Sea, Hints, Far Away, Kent, Surrey

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

- Kirsty Gallacher

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

topic: Beautiful, Village, Quaint, Surrey

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

- John Betjeman

source: 'Subaltern's Love-Song' (1945)

topic: Surrey

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.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Surrey

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.

- Eleanor Perenyi

topic: Wall, Flower, Eye, Squinting, Monet

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.

- Alistair Cooke

topic: Senior, Country, Golf, Extremity, Surrey

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.

- Hugo Weaving

topic: Kids, Parent, West, Surrey, West Africa