Wales Quotes

There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.

We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.

If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

We can't feel safe because we are not safe. (on Fulham, 2004-5 season)

John Toshack hates me.

He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

Charles is Charles. Wale is Wale. It's two separate entities that have nothing to do with each other and probably will never have anything to do with each other and I wish him the best.

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

I started singing because I come from Wales

I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.

Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!

There are some real positives for Wales. Their back four's not bad, sometimes.

I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.

Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.

Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—

I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this lost, even in Wales.

Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a strange aphrodisiac. Yeah, a hot look, no denying.

Ah, cariad, finally I have you to myself, with a bed behind me, and what do I do?

There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.

Did you know, ji, ’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst.

...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.

You will be the death of me, woman.

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargoCongealed in the dark arteries, Old veinsThat hold Glamorgan's blood.The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and

Wizard Howl, " said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.