Words matter. These are the best Hampton Quotes from famous people such as Denis Leary, Steven Gaines, Debra Wilson, Lucy Worsley, Shakira Caine, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it’s Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It’s not nice.
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.
One of the great privileges of my job as a curator is occasionally taking people up onto the roof of Hampton Court for a tour.
South Hampton is Jacket-With-No-Socks, East Hampton is Socks-With-No-Jacket, Bridge Hampton is Jacket-and-Socks and Sag Harbor, along with the Fun Group, is No-Jacket-and-No-Socks.
When do you suppose the electric guitar was invented? If you thought the 1950s, you’d be wrong. If you can muster a recollection of hearing electric guitar in Lionel Hampton’s big band in the 1940s and date it to that decade, you’d still be off – by more than 30 years.
My own office life at Hampton Court is somewhat challenging food-wise. It’s miles from anywhere, off the Chapel Court, deep inside the palace, up a spiral staircase of 51 steps. You can’t just nip out for a sandwich.
I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton.
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually – and among them many African-American – migrated to the Hampton Roads area because of the job boom that was happening. It was a place where you could get stable war jobs.
I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.
East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
I chose to buy a house in Montauk because it has a sleepier vibe than the rest of the East End. I also felt that I would run into city people in East Hampton and wanted more of a buffer.
We have a house near East Hampton, and of all the beaches I’ve been to, I think there is something so beautiful about Long Island beaches. I love them in the fall and winter.
We were fortunate that most of the ‘1666’ stuff we did shoot all together. We were filming out in Hampton, Georgia. It was so amazing. They built a village for us to shoot in. It made our job as actors so much easier.
I read numerous books – loads in fact – and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry’s old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
I think on some level, you always carry your first and biggest influences with you, whether it’s the Allman Brothers or Col. Bruce Hampton, people that you learned a huge amount of what you do from. So it’s always there.
The coolest gift I’ve ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It’s a collector’s item and came with a case and a stand and everything.
If you work as a curator, as I do, at Hampton Court, you sometimes wonder if there might be more to life than Henry VIII.
It’s just as easy to buy a $12,000 watch in East Hampton as it is to pick up a carton of milk, and new homeowners are so impatient that they landscape their front lawns with ‘mature gardens’ of full-grown trees.
It’s our job as curators to open up Hampton Court to visitors, and to look after the buildings and collections for the future.
Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation’s dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.
My best memories growing up are of putting on musicals with my mom and dad, Both of them are real hams; it was like vaudeville in East Hampton.
