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Wales Quotes & Sayings

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I don't think I've ever felt this lost, even in Wales. — Karl Pilkington

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over. — Joshua Slocum

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. — Jimmy Wales

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. — Diana Princess Of Wales

Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale. — John Cornforth

I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it. — Gary Speed

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

Her mind had been a blank story for so many years, and, suddenly, all the pages were filled with lost memories. — Rachel M. Greenebaum

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion. — John Cale

Dialing down is not an option for me. — Jimmy Wales

So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land — Richard Llewellyn

I started singing because I come from Wales. — Bryn Terfel

He loves deep ... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men. — Forrest Carter

Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared! — Dougie Poynter

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

We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely. — Jimmy Wales

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

Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine. Kylie Minogue is feminine. I am . . . femi-none. — Caitlin Moran

I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect. — Owain Yeoman

Fourth. Henry, Prince of Wales, — William Shakespeare

From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales. — Luke Evans

If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer. — Gary Speed

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. — Diana Princess Of Wales

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

I locate Essential Spain at last - the cruel winds, the grinding poverty, the unforgiving landscape. It could be Wales. — William Donaldson

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

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup. — Robbie Savage

Only do what your heart tells you. — Diana Princess Of Wales

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable. — Jimmy Wales

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
To share with me in glory any more:
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere; — William Shakespeare

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can. — Jimmy Wales

Wikis and social networking are just tools. — Jimmy Wales

I am really accessible. — Jimmy Wales

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. — Jimmy Wales

I am not Pele or Maradona — Robbie Savage

To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky — R.S. Thomas

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job. — Jimmy Wales

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians. — Jimmy Wales

I'm from North Wales, where we express ourselves by throwing rocks at trees. — Lisa Kleypas

We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation. — Charles Kennedy

I lived in Wales back in 1982 and 1983. I studied journalism at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education just off Newport Road in Cardiff. — Simon Fowler

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved — Diana Princess Of Wales

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information. — Jimmy Wales

A broken bone will never break in the same place again...it heals stronger. Be that bone brother. — Franklin E. Wales

IAR is policy, always has been. — Jimmy Wales

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers. — Jimmy Wales

I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India. — Terry Jones

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. — Jonathan Dimbleby

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. — Jimmy Wales

Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the holiday. — Roger Bannister

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

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with. — Jimmy Wales

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. — Jimmy Wales

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales. — Jonathan Dimbleby

Family is the most important thing in the world. — Diana Princess Of Wales

Though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy — William Shakespeare

We don't let them die, in Wales
Merlin, and Arthur and Owain
we keep them close by and asleep in the hills to be awakended if ever we need them. — Susanna Kearsley

The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it. — Howard Tomb

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company. — Jimmy Wales

Myspace hurts my eyes. — Jimmy Wales

Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks. — Jimmy Wales

I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models. — Jimmy Wales

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe. — Joseph Banks

[Arthur to Merlin]
I'm the Prince of Wales, and you're Welsh. I can do whatever I bloody well like to you. — FayJay

Shut the door, Wales. — Beau Brummell

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

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? — Prince Charles

Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country. — Ian Rush

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community. — Jimmy Wales

When he arrived in Wales, my grandfather had been a young, frightened boy who didn't speak the language, a boy hunted by two kinds of monsters: — Ransom Riggs

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things. — Jimmy Wales

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy. — Jimmy Wales

But in all honesty, I do not find it so peculiar a notion, that a Welshman should rule Wales. — Sharon Kay Penman

'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS. — Ben Mendelsohn

Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while — Groucho Marx

We don't need secrecy. — Jimmy Wales

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting. — Jimmy Wales

My God. What's happened? — Diana Princess Of Wales

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag. — Jimmy Wales

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. — Jimmy Wales

We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely. — Jimmy Wales

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight. — Jimmy Wales

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world. — Jimmy Wales

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them. — Luke Evans

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves. — Diana Princess Of Wales

I will redirect my feeling of frustration into something positive — Sara Wales

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really. — Jimmy Wales

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist. — Jimmy Wales

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales. — John Rhys-Davies

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks. — Jimmy Wales

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

Something very unusual, a chocolate-flavoured log of goats' cheese. "Made by lesbians in Wales," Sam had explained superfluously. — Philip Hensher

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world. — Jimmy Wales

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country. — Diana Princess Of Wales

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views. — Jimmy Wales

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. — Lloyd Alexander

Mainland Wales, was somewhere before us but only dimly visible, an inky smudge squatting along the far horizon. — Ransom Riggs

Buzzards got to eat; same as worms. — Josey Wales

We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying. — Jimmy Wales