Wales Quotes - Page 4

• I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. 
  (on retiring from international football)

  Robbie Savage

  Football, Upset, Red

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

  Chris Coleman

  Safe, Fulham, Feels

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• Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

  Ryan Giggs

  Color, Black, Culture

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• I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.

  Edward Heath

  Party, Scotland, Victory

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• When I was asked to write a message for your brochure I gladly accepted as I remember my first school tour of England was Wales. The experience proved extremely useful in my development of a cricketer.

  Graeme Smith

  Writing, School, Development

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• I remember performing with the Choir as an instrumentalist when I was still in school and it was wonderful to share the stage with them again more recently in Rhyl and at the opening of the Wales vs New Zealand rugby international at the Millennium Stadium. Here's wishing everyone involved in the Choir every success - I can't wait to perform with you again.

  Katherine Jenkins

  School, Waiting, Wish

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• I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart.

  Ronnie Corbett

  Memories, Heart, Two

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• I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.

  Warren Mundine

  Machines, World, Corporations

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I am not Pele or Maradona

  Robbie Savage

  Maradona

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• John Toshack hates me.

  Robbie Savage

  Hate, Hate Me

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• There is one school of thought that says Mayors should cut ribbons, be funny and be a buffoon. The other school of thought is that we can do more. Scotland is getting more powers. Wales is getting more powers. Greater Manchester. London needs more powers.

  Sadiq Khan

  School, Cutting, Scotland

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there isn't a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1/3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1/5 front page newspaper articles, that they're less than 1/10 of engineers and that 54,000 a year lose their jobs as a result of maternity discrimination... to name but a tiny sample of issues. It's not 'going too far' to demand equality, and we're certainly not there yet.

  Laura Bates

  Jobs, Writing, Years

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Dialect, Language

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I've traveled everywhere, and it's been amazing. I used to think taking a flight was kind of a big deal, you know? I'm from the valleys of South Wales and when my family used to go on holiday, it was a big thing. Packing the bags, checking in, not losing your passport, going through customs, the X-ray machine, all that stuff used to be quite an intense thing. Now it's like catching a bus, I don't even think about it.

  Luke Evans

  Holiday, Thinking, Bags

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and they've already written their autobiography. I didn't want to write it too soon. I wanted to live a while and write about things that I felt were important to me - growing up in Wales, and the characters that I met and listened to.

  Tom Jones

  Growing Up, Writing, Character

  "What's new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• When I started off in Wales, I sang and accompanied myself with guitar in the '50s. And then I got a band together, which is a rhythm section, really. I used to do a lot of blues, and rhythm and blues, and '50s rock 'n' roll and country, and all kinds of stuff.

  Tom Jones

  Country, Rocks, Guitar

  "What's new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than I did before, because I loved it when I first sang in Wales, in a pub or a club. I loved it then, getting up and singing. Or as a kid in school, I've always loved to sing. But I think when you've been around a long time, it's even more satisfying to think that people are listening to me now, and I've been in the business for a long time.

  Tom Jones

  Song, School, Kids

  "What’s new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• I disagree with the analysis that you've put about what happened in relation to the student demonstrations and protests and the incident with the Prince of Wales' car. We're very clear that we have to separate out the political responsibility from operational responsibility of the police.

  Theresa May

  Responsibility, Car, Political

  "The Conservative Party’s always stood in every seat, and I think it’s important to us". Interview with Paul Goodman and Mark Fox, conservativehome.blogs.com. February 16, 2011.

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

  Carwyn Jones

  Country, Independent, Scotland

  "After Voting For Brexit, Wales Weighs In On EU Business Uncertainty". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. June 26, 2016.

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• My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.

  Iwan Rheon

  Growing Up, School, Artist

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales.

  Susanna Clarke

  Senior, Country, Names

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• I need to know you believe me when I say I love you. That is all." "I believe everything you say," Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping doen from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of the dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. "After all," she said, "you weren't lying about the tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Tattoo, Lying, Believe

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• Do you miss Wales?” Tessa inquired. Will shrugged lightly. “What’s to miss? Sheep and singing,” he said. “And the ridiculous language. Fe hoffwn i fod mor feddw, fyddai ddim yn cofio fy enw.” “What does that mean?” “It means ‘I wish to get so drunk I no longer remember my own name,’ Quite useful.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Sheep, Names

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• 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—

  Cassandra Clare

  Patriotic, Dragons, Honor

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dream, Childhood, Three

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