Top 121 Yorkshire Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

Yorkshire is a hard place to ride a bike.

I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

I knew dad was born in Yorkshire and mum was from Mountain Ash.

The whole of Yorkshire has been known throughout the world for various reasons, not least because of Wuthering Heights, but it was James Herriot I think that put Yorkshire on the international map and we are part of that, which is a great honor really.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

They do not eat Yorkshire pudding on Sunday in Iowa.

I had the working class ethic. I wanted to make a living and there weren't many opportunities for an opera singer in Yorkshire, so I went onto the club circuit.

I love a Yorkshire pudding. It's basically pancake batter that's fried in beef fat and puffs up; it's like you can't go wrong.

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.

My big toe alone is the size of Yorkshire.

In my bones, I feel like a Scot. I always have. My mum's from Doncaster, so whatever that is as a combination of Scotland and Yorkshire. It isn't southern.

Many businesses in Yorkshire want the security and stability of Britain's continued membership of the European Union, a cause I look forward to championing passionately in this place and elsewhere.

The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.

When I came into the Yorkshire academy I was christened Bluey almost immediately.

I have had an amazingly fortunate life. I'm a child from Yorkshire, which is sort of like Cleveland without the pretty bits.

I'm a health nut who likes to work out every day, but I am powerless when it comes to Yorkshire pudding, pizza and ice cream.

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.

I like Yorkshire terriers. They're good to wash your car with. They fit right in the bucket.

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

Yorkshire is so much part of me.

I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire, and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too.

During the time I didn't play for England, they were losing Test matches, and the Yorkshire committee were telling me that I should be batting for my country. Then, when I decided to make myself available to play for England again in 1977, and Yorkshire lost a couple of matches in my absence, they criticised me for not being there.

My mind became so frazzled by the end of the 1974 season that I decided the thing to do was give up playing for England and concentrate on Yorkshire. I felt the only way to succeed was to captain and play every match for Yorkshire.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.

My mother was originally from Yorkshire and I spent a lot of my childhood there.

Life without cricket was initially harder for my dad than playing the game for Yorkshire and England had ever been. He missed it, and also the adrenaline pump of a performance.

I still live in the same town in Yorkshire where I've always lived.

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.

Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred.

I live in London. But during lockdown I moved back to Yorkshire with my mum and dad.

Everyone's always shocked that I'm still based in Yorkshire, but going home there is my sanctuary. Home is where the heart is, and my mother, sister and brother are there, and my partner.

I wanted to feel at home so I've brought Yorkshire Tea Bags in my suitcase, as well as my slippers!

Every young cricketer from our county dreams of playing for Yorkshire and going on to represent England.

I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am both a Shakespeare and Disney addict.

I've been a waitress for events, but a lady at the Victoria hotel in Yorkshire showed me how to do it properly.

Well, I moved around quite a lot so I was born in Yorkshire and then I moved to Blackpool, which is like North England.

I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!

I grew up in Yorkshire, which is like the Texas of Britain. It's a proud free state and not always liked by the other counties in Britain.

A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

Throughout Yorkshire's history, the committee had not been known for its visionary approach. They just assumed that because Yorkshire had been fantastic in the past, and the county was full of kids wanting to play cricket, everything would be okay.

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

Being northern, my girls are big Yorkshire pudding fans and they have gravy with everything.

I did get the nickname 'craptain' from the Yorkshire dressing room. A bit of banter which I thought was quite funny.

As dialect began to be collected in the late 19th century, such words as Yorkshire's 'gobslotch' emerged, revealing the burgeoning association between gluttony and stupidity.

I was the youngest of four boys, raised in North Yorkshire.

You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.

I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.

In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

I think 'chuffed to bits' is a very Yorkshire way of describing my feelings for my friend and county team-mate Joe Root on his promotion to England captain.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.