Birmingham Quotes

Birmingham Quote of the day

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

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

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

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

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

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.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater 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.

We shouldn't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released if they'd been hanged. They'd have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

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

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

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.

Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor