Top 9 Birmingham Quotes

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

Tony Wilson

States, Birmingham, Awake

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

Lee Child

Grew Up, Birmingham, Made

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Winston Churchill

Europe, Birmingham, Bores

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

Willie Mays

Black, Making Money, Birmingham

"Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.

Paul Nurse

Research, Projects, Birmingham

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Jane Austen

Cities, Sound, Birmingham

'Emma' (1816) ch. 36 (Mrs Elton)

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

Chris Cleave

Grandmother, Birmingham, Ambulance

""We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test"--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.