Jo Cox Quotes

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

The Thames is liquid history.

I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

I know London very well.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city.

I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.

I love London.

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

Spanish and Dutch ships with whose help we would hasten to the banks of the Thames and destroy the new Carthage [London]

I'm a Londoner. Embankment. Big Ben. Cab drivers.

There are stories and history everywhere in London.

I've been doing a little project with my 11-year-old son, Charlie: we're canoeing from the source of the Thames to the Houses of Parliament. It's taken us three years so far, and we're only half way.

I lived in London, went to the London School of Economics, do a lot of business in London, and have a lot of fun in London.

I really enjoy London.

When I was a youngster my grandparents took me sightseeing and we went on the London Eye.

You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and lights on buildings and on bridges which looked like earthbound stars and they glimmered repeated as they were reflected with the city in the night water of the Thames. It’s fairyland thought Richard.

The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.

If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.