Yorkshire

"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."

"If the Scots can have independence, then in terms of being a viable unit Yorkshire can too. Its larger, it has more population, it has every asset you could need. If we are playing that narrow game, Yorkshire is entitled to independence and its own Parliament. But is that what we want today? Its playing into the hands of those people who want to break up the United Kingdom and let Europe rule the various parts."

"Being from Yorkshire is as much a state of mind as a geographical fact."

"The Duke of York so dread The eager vaward led."

"Once bitten twice shy, and several times bitten, then you make a rule about it. People from Yorkshire, we have found, are dour and nurse a grudge. One thing you cant put up with on expeditions are people who search for trouble, then nurse it when they have found it."

"My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon"

"The rogues and vagabonds who sought refuge in the moorland that later inspired the Brontë sisters to their several masterpieces."

"It is no exaggeration to say I would have died for Yorkshire. I suppose once or twice I nearly did."

"What do yer want to go to London for? Its nowt but 20 Doncasters end to end."

"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York."

"The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph, With a great power of English and of Scots, Are by the shrieve of Yorkshire overthrown."

"Several years ago, when I earned my crust as a policeman, I was chasing a gang of deer poachers across the North Yorkshire moors at dawn as the sun rose from the sea. Just as the diamond tip broke over the hill, the old bobby with me stopped and looked down to the valleys that stretched into the distance. "Look," he said, as if he had seen something for the first time. "Gods kingdom, Adams land — no finer place will you ever find."