Top 176 Birmingham Quotes & Sayings

The second gig I did was New Year's Eve at the Birmingham Anglers Club, and that started with booing.

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

There was a shop in Birmingham called Autographs, where I'm from in Birmingham. My uncles and dad used to shop there. They played professionally, too. When I started, I went to Autograph, and they had brands like Rick Owens. There are loads of brands, like my go-to brands that I will go to if I want to buy jeans, like DSquared or Balmain.

I love my home state and my hometown. I'm so grateful to Birmingham and Alabama for what it made me.

I went to university in Birmingham in the 1970s just when the curry revolution was starting in Britain.

My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here.

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham to do a matinee and a night, and he said, 'Hand me that tablet up there.' And he wrote down, 'Hey, good lookin', what you got cookin'' and before we got to Birmingham it was finished.

I know how much of a uniting game cricket is and as a leader of the Birmingham Phoenix that is something I definitely want to promote.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

Birmingham has managed to keep that warmth, and it has the friendliest people. I can't see why I would want to leave.

I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. Nobody really blow up from Birmingham, Ala.

I'm the only member of my family who dared to move away from Birmingham - my brothers and sister are still here, along with my mom.

The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.

People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

I love living in Birmingham, it's just a lovely gentle life, and it's calm. And it's full of Brummies who I find hilarious.

The first live gig I ever saw was Johnny Cash at the Birmingham Odeon in 1971. I was 14 and went with my dad.

When I was at university in Birmingham, I used to spend half my grant betting on horse racing. Seven terms out of nine, I made a profit.

We have a fabulous civil rights history here in Birmingham.

I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.

I accept House of Fraser cannot have 500,000 square feet in Birmingham. Honestly, you would need an Uber to take you round. It's ridiculous.

If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most important part of my identity. I'm not always sure I feel English or British, but I always feel like a Brummie.

Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world. People respond to a certain down-to-earthness that I have, and that's purely as a result of coming from Birmingham.

Obviously it's very hard to leave a club that you've supported all your life. But the reason that I've come to Birmingham is that I think Steve Bruce is one of the best young managers in the country and that Birmingham as a club is a sleeping giant.

My ultimate goal? To move my momma out of Birmingham. To move my whole family out of Birmingham, my friends, my family, me. It don't even need to be out of Birmingham, just to a better community, a gated community or something.

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

My record is good with Birmingham and Wigan. Just study the facts.

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

I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York...it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

I had a fantastic time at Birmingham and I never regret anything that happened there.

I feel really honoured to be in the Walk of Fame in Birmingham with so many great people already like Ozzy Osbourne.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.

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

I'm a big Birmingham City supporter and seeing the fans dressed as Peaky Blinders is one of my proudest moments.

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

We come to Birmingham every January for the 'Britain's Got Talent' auditions and always have a great time.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

With the national team I had to go to Newcastle, Wales, I knew a little about England, but Wolves and Birmingham I did not know anything.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.

We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

A lot of the Indian supporters would have been born in Birmingham, have Birmingham accents. It is my home city as well. Second, third generations from the sub-continent still support India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

I like Manchester, Birmingham. I really find this place very nice. Loved Australia. I thought that was awesome.

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

I told Birmingham I don't want nothing, I'm not interested in the money.

It is a bit surreal for me because I have been a lifelong Birmingham fan, so to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a massive honour.

As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where our focus lies.

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

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

I went to see 'The Greatest Dancer' when it was filmed in Birmingham. And they announced the show's judges' names and then Curtis' name. The crowd went wild.

My agent is a Birmingham fan and I don't think Birmingham and Aston Villa get on too well.

Birmingham is my second home.

Normally during the week between Christmas and New Year I'm slumped in a chair in Birmingham, eating, farting and spouting total nonsense.

I just didn't feel like there would be a lot of opportunities for me in Birmingham.

We're a tight-knit city in Birmingham. We have so much around us that brings the people together, no matter who you are or your background.