Wales Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Country, Mother, War

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

  Anthony Holden

  Wings, Literature, Pressure

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• I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.

  Vernon Davis

  Play, Tone, Rugby

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• You know I could have stayed in my comfortable chair in South Wales having the first Welsh team that got promoted and been there a number of years, but for me I wanted to work at a club that was world class and at the very, very top.

  Brendan

  Team, Years, Class

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• I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter of record that thousands of the victims of this superstitious rite have been saved from smallpox by the immunizing potency of death. But it is a fact that the official statistics of England and Wales show unmistakably that, while vaccination has killed ten times more people than smallpox, there has been a decrease in smallpox concomitant with the decrease in vaccination. . . It might be appropriately asked, in the words of the Vaccination Inquirer

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Vaccines, People, Records

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• Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

  Lloyd Alexander

  War, Paris, Germany

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• If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

  Andy Zaltzman

  Princess, School, Would Be

  "Not amused by Jimmy Carr? Check out these comedians instead" by Hazel Davis, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2009.

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• There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Littles, Would Be, Stories

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• One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

  Charles Sturt

  Success, Example, Moral

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.63

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• It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

  Charles Sturt

  Success, Conducting, Should

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.68

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• I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

  Gary Speed

  Team, Giving, Effort

  "Wales are moving at a steady pace guided by the hand of Gary Speed". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2011.

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• I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

  Winston Churchill

  Sports, Country, Home

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• I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

  Jane Siberry

  Dog, Home, Sheep

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• One girl, actually, in the UK — it was a really small show in Wales — a girl came up to me and said that because of one of my songs she was still alive. She’d decided not to commit suicide. It was a really emotional moment.

  Lights

  Girl, Suicide, Song

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