Quotes About Being Welsh

#1. I've always felt very proud of Wales and being Welsh. People are a bit surprised when I say I'm Welsh. I was born in Wales, went to school in Wales and my mother was Welsh. I'm Welsh. It's my place of birth, my country.

John Prescott

#2. I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant!

Katherine Jenkins

#3. We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.

Matthew Rhys

#4. Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

Iwan Rheon

#5. I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

Gary Speed

#6. 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.

Ioan Gruffudd

#7. 'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#8. No tears come, and it would be pointless, like trying to empty a reservoir of grief by drip feed. I'm being daft.

Irvine Welsh

#9. Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. But Reba taught me to be grateful no matter what. I looked up at the blue sky.

Joan Bauer

#11. Why fantasize about what you already experience? I go to the written word for places and faces that I don't get at home. Hot people in hot climates. Sex acts I can hardly imagine. Porn is about the unachievable ... and, therefore, the inherently desirable.

Belle De Jour

#12. I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

Irvine Welsh

#13. See a bald woman in a black pencil skirt and white blouse.

Ben H. Winters

#14. This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.

Irvine Welsh

#15. This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have.

Irvine Welsh

#16. Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not be one tree left standing on God's green Earth.

Irvine Welsh

#17. The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.

Nandita Das

#18. As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss

James Allen

#19. The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

Chris Prentiss

#20. Bvalltu, for such approximately was the philosopher's name, the "11" being pronounced more or less as in 27 Welsh, Bvalltu effected a "cure" by merely inviting

Olaf Stapledon

#21. People ask, why hasn't that person busted out? Almost always, at the end of it, consciously or subconsciously, it hasn't happened because that person has chosen for it to not happen. Either walking away, because it wasn't the life they wanted, or through self-sabotaging.

Chris Gethard

#22. When I'm answering questions from the Denver media, I'm not worried about what the Broncos' people are going to think. I'm worried about what Belichick will think. Isn't that crazy?

Wes Welker

#23. To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.

Meister Eckhart

#24. There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia.

Michael Ignatieff

#25. 'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

Chin Han

#26. I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#27. It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#28. It's always struck me as funny that guys with scars get a reputation for being hard. It's the ones that cut them you should be looking out for, right?

Louise Welsh

#29. When did you become so weak?" I don't know. I don't know where that strength went, I don't remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it.

Paula Hawkins

#30. Pursuing protectionism is just like locking one's self in a dark room: Wind and rain might be kept outside but so are light and air.

Xi Jinping

#31. I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vaccuum cleaners.

Jeff Stilson