Following is our list of the most famous borough quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational borough quotes. Hopefully, these borough quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your borough knowledge!
A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight. — Rachel Field
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at. — John Evelyn
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. — Charles Spurgeon
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist. — John Major
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. — Bill Vaughan
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul. — Neil Gaiman
Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. — John Hillaby
The town was paper, but the memories were not. — John Green
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. — Stephen King
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. — Herbert V. Prochnow
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. — Herbert Prochnow
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy. — Bill Pullman
In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city. — Jurgen Klopp
If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter. — Edward Thomas
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets. — Maajid Nawaz
There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough. — Ken Livingstone
It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford. — Robert Rankin
Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! — Gerard Manley Hopkins
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks. — Paul Verlaine
I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening. — Theo James
In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection, and Network. I had a friend who visited New York, and I asked him what it was like. He said, "Oh, it's great. Just wear a coat and don't look anyone in the eye." — Baz Luhrmann
During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox. — George Bernard Shaw
You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation. — Anthony Henley
Brooklyn is a very weird borough. — Keeth Smart
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens. — Anthony Weiner
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom. — John Bright
We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you. — Boris Johnson
Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough. — Amber Hollibaugh
It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such a rate that the vast majority of Londoners can't afford to buy, are being forced out of the boroughs they grew up in, or in the worst cases, are being made homeless. If nothing is done, people will continue to be driven out of the city and London will cease to be a hub for creativity and entrepreneurship. — David Lammy
The New York Times will tell you what is going on in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa. But it is no exaggeration that The New York Times has more people in India than they have in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a borough of two million people. They're not a Bloomingdale's people, not trendy, sophisticated, the quiche and Volvo set. The New York Times does not serve those people. — Edwin Diamond
Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see between what was in this city in the 1970's and where it is today and how much more energy there is and how much more just sheer. — Juan Enriquez
New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second. — Fran Lebowitz
I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling. — Vincent Piazza
WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place. — William Cobbett
New York City is the capital for Baseball, not just for the pros, but also for the kids throughout the city, as well. No matter who you root for, the Borough Cup is going to make every kid and community that participates a winner. — Mark Teixeira
Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them. — Charles Schumer
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe. — Jonathan Safran Foer
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