London Quotes
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Home is here in London and always has been.
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I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much!
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Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.
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We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car parks, quarries and wastelands are being protected and we are saying there isn't enough land to build the houses we need.
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It was a bad night to be about with such a feeling in one's heart. The rain was cold, pitiless and increasing. A damp, keen wind blew down the cross streets leading from the river. The fumes of the gas works seemed to fall with the rain. The roadway was muddy; the pavement greasy; the lamps burned dimly; and that dreary district of London looked its very gloomiest and worst.
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My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.
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I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.
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Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
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When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.
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The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.
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I am definitely a west London girl.
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Kanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to go to my wedding.
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
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Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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I was brought up in south London and I started out in the world of graffiti when I was about 14 because I wanted to be part of that hooded tracksuit gang thing.
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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
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She had taken London by storm - which was to say, as with any good storm, some people stayed indoors when they saw her coming.
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London is a bad habit one hates to lose.
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People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.
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I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
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If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.
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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.
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I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.
