Quotes About Norfolk

Norfolk has a long-standing reputation for inbreeding. As my son Sam used to say: "Norfolk: too many people, not enough surnames." I am not for a moment suggesting that the rumors are entirely true, but I will say that when the police do DNA checks after crimes they sometimes have to arrest as many as twelve thousand people.

They had arrived two days ago, flying into Norfolk, Virginia, then driving the rest of the way in a rented sedan, through towns with names like Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head.

I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

The father of Ruth van Cleve's child, she reports, is under the protection and care of the Norfolk County Correctional Authority, awaiting sentencing for what Ruth van Cleve describes several times as operating a pharmaceutical company without a license.

My lord Norfolk curses the day laymen began to read the scriptures. "Blessed are the meek!" he says. "With all respect to our Saviour, you don't want that notion to get around an army camp.

They arrived on a Sunday, two vengeful grandees: the Duke of Norfolk a bright-eyed hawk

One of the priests says, 'Madam, she is very holy person. Her speech is inspired.' 'Get her out of my way,' Anne says. 'Lightning will strike you,' the nun tells Henry. He laughs uncertainly. Norfolk erupts into the group, teeth clenched, fist raised. 'Drag her back to her whorehouse, before she feels this, by God!

Wherever he goes he is cheered by the people.' 'The people?' Norfolk says. 'They'd cheer a Barbary ape. Who cares what they cheer? Hang 'em all.' 'But then who will you tax?' he says.

I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.

It is all true. It is true that a German plane came down on the moor in the middle of a shooting party and the two airmen were captured. It is true that German planes came down to low level in Norfolk, and elsewhere, and used machine guns to kill pedestrians on the roads.

From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk - across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it's not John McDonnell's bitter socialist hooch. It's a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world - free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.

I live in a small village on the Norfolk coast, far from the Edinburgh festival.

I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.