A Quote by Steve Backshall

My wife Helen is Cornish and both sides of her family are Cornish going back at least a dozen generations. And I envy that and desperately want it for my children.

Steve Backshall

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Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish.

Henry Jenner

As I am actually partly Cornish, I am frequently tempted to start some sort of Cornish liberation front in the Home Counties, where our language rights are badly neglected.

Peter Hitchens

The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.

Sabine Baring-Gould

In truth I don't like Cornish pasties.

Joe Cornish

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

Tori Amos

Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.

Sabine Baring-Gould

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

Henry Jenner

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

Peter Wright

My boys are Cornish because they were all born there, but Im quite happy just to be an admirer.

Rick Stein

Contrary to popular opinion, the most important characteristic of a godly mother is not her relationship with her children. It is her love for her husband. The love between husband and wife is the real key to a thriving family. A healthy home environment cannot be built exclusively on the parents' love for their children. The properly situated family has marriage at the center; families shouldn't revolve around the children.

John F. MacArthur

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

Clifford Sifton

And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!

Robert Stephen Hawker

I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.

Kyle MacLachlan

There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.

Henry Jenner

The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are.

Gwenno

I'm partial to the Cornish coast, as it's near where I grew up in Plymouth. The views across the water are stunning. I love walking along the sandy beaches and the seafront paths.

Tom Daley

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