Yorkshire Expressions Quotes & Sayings

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. — Mary McLeod Bethune

And there was that letter from the Bramleys - that really made me feel good. You don't find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course - old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared. — James Herriot

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past? — Dorothy Dunnett

Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions — Matt Selman

When we are well loved, we inevitably give love to those around us. — Mark Whitwell

Don't try and fit your faith into your busy schedule, build your schedule around your faith. — Kenneth Copeland

What are you supposed to do when you forget what normal feels like? — Amy Reed

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time. — Christian Morgenstern

Did ye know that the silkies put aside their skins when they come ashore, and walk like men? And if ye find a silkie's skin and hide it, he - or she - " he added, fairly, "canna go into the sea again, but must stay with ye on the land. — Diana Gabaldon

This is what you have to understand. You grew up, you went to this school and that one, you made these friends and those. It was nothing. The future is a much bigger deal than the past, Adrian, a much bigger deal. Not just because it has babies in it, but because there are better people in it, who are better behaved and more fun to be with, the scenery is better, the weather is better, the rewards and thrills are better. But I really am not sure that you will ever... — Stephen Fry

You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness. — George R R Martin