Norfolk Quotes

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better. (Harry Mathews)
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. View quote
Jeremy Northam
They go on threatening that if we proceed, they will cut down their benefactions and discharge labour. What kind of labour? What is the labour they are going to choose for dismissal? Are they going to threaten to devastate rural England by feeding and dressing themselves? Are they going to reduce their gamekeepers? Ah, that would be sad! The agricultural labourer and the farmer might then have some part of the game that is fattened by their labour. Also what would happen to you in the season? No week-end shooting with the Duke of Norfolk or anyone. View quote
David Lloyd George
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. View quote
Paul Nurse
More: I will not take the oath. I will not tell you why I will not. Norfolk: Then your reasons must be treasonable! More: Not "must be;" may be. Norfolk: It's a fair assumption! More: The law requires more than an assumption; the law requires a fact. View quote
Robert Bolt
Elyot: I met her on a house party in Norfolk. Amanda: Very flat, Norfolk. Elyot: There's no need to be unpleasant. Amanda: That was no reflection on her, unless of course she made it flatter. View quote
Noël Coward
Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneaker and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
No person can have been in Norfolk without quickly perceiving, that in this branch of rural economy the county has very little to boast. No where are meadows and pastures worse managed: in all parts of the county we see them over-run with all sorts of spontaneous rubbish, bushes, briars, rushes: the water stagnant: ant-hills numerous: in a word, left in a state of nature, by men who willingly make all sorts of exertions to render their arable land clean, rich and productive. View quote
Arthur Young
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia Tidewater four ten o nine Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin' And the poor boy's on the line. View quote
Chuck Berry
I am myself a Norfolk man. View quote
Horatio Nelson
I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings. (Amanda Donohoe)
I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too. View quote
Honor Blackman
I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk. View quote
Saffron Aldridge
Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglas in red herrings. View quote
Fitz-Greene Halleck