82 Wales Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

First Jim Kicked South Off Wales Literary Lucky Novel Resident Published Career

Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there. Mekhi Phifer

Time Great People Had Great Time Were Wales

I wish Wales was more represented on the British stage, and I have missed that being in London. Morfydd Clark

Wish Stage London More Missed Wales Being British

I was always far more into anything creative that called for a bit of active participation, like reading aloud in class. Then, having left school shortly after my GCSEs, I auditioned for the National Youth Theatre of Wales and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain as well as the Welsh National Youth Opera. I ended up getting into all three. Morfydd Clark

Great Class Creative Youth Theatre School Three Reading National Active Great Britain Bit Having More Participation Like Aloud Opera Well Always Welsh Left Up Wales Ended Getting After Anything Far Then Britain

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. Nina Bawden

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. Nina Bawden

Hope News Me Cleaning School Mother Farm Final State Abandoned Out Postman Exam Results Weeks Had Scholarship Failed Along Were Waited Handed Wales Oxford Where Deciding Room Many Letter

Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status. The four nations of these islands must commit themselves absolutely to the project of a United Europe. Norman Davies

Future Project Independent Must Status Absolutely Advance Absorb Islands Ireland Irish Wales Scotland Commit Northern Northern Ireland Nations Republic Themselves Full Europe United Four

I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!' Owain Yeoman

We didn't travel much when I was little - most of what we did was visit various campsites around Conway, north Wales. My first major holiday abroad was to Ibiza with my parents when I was five. I vividly remember the plane touching down and that the hotel had great swings with lots of little lizards darting about that I was determined to catch. Paul Hollywood

Great Travel Remember Parents First Down Visit Vividly About Determined Touching Abroad Various Had Catch Hotel Major Most Around Lots Wales Five North Did Holiday Little Plane Much Conway Swings

Because Scotland and Northern Ireland want to remain part of the E.U., there is the quite real possibility that Scotland and even Northern Ireland might now choose to go their own way on membership within the E.U. and the 'United Kingdom' would suddenly effectively be only England and Wales. Peter Bergen

Own Way Possibility Membership Would Kingdom Only Remain Part Because Within Real Go Effectively Ireland Wales Scotland Northern Quite Northern Ireland Want Might Choose England Even Suddenly Now United United Kingdom

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing. Piper Perabo

You Rain Sunshine Live Dressed Pouring Hail Hot Know Because How Wales Get Just Might Then Confusing

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

Singing Party Wales Storytelling Skills Professions

I'll move back to Wales if and when I have children. I want them to speak the language I speak, but I love living in London. It's my favourite city in the whole world. I love it because it's not England, it's London. Rhys Ifans

Love Speak World Language Living Back City Favourite London Because Wales Move Children Want Them England Whole

I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this view, I hope that every individual member of the Labour Party, will understand that and will strive to achieve unity so that we can deliver the yes vote in the Autumn. Ron Davies

Hope Saying Vote Commitment Achieve Election Will Party Autumn Every Unity Strive Member Individual Deliver Clear Understand Am Yes Very Wales Labour Labour Party View Express Here

I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that. Ron Davies

Democracy Else Assure Our More New Powers Exercise Without Wales Than Task Behalf Anybody Anybody Else Wanting Interesting Draconian

It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards. Ron Davies

Health Care Our About More Economic Purpose Delivery Performance Democratic Health Care Educational Wales Improving Getting Standards Raising

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe. Sharon Kay Penman

Women First Research Elsewhere Status Laws More Greater Welsh Years Years Ago Discovery Began Wales Than Moved Europe Fascinated Twenty Enjoyed Here Medieval Dragons

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians. Shereen El Feki

Family Book People Mother Father Church Men Free Islam Christian Jews Muslim Marry Marrying Brother Anglican Obliged Lay Leap She Became Mobility Preacher Wales Vicar Baptist Upward Upward Mobility Converted Them Among Her Christians

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. Stephen Leacock

Own Way Section Laughing Except Wales Which Each British

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left. Tom Jones

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

Numerous Football Been Wales Clubs Captain

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