I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I… — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
You know I could have stayed in my comfortable chair in South Wales having the first Welsh team that got promoted and… — Brendan Copy Share Image
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes… — Sophia Myles Copy Share Image
From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
“The myth that the island of Britain was the God-given property of Welsh-speaking peoples stolen by the Saxons meant that the Welsh… — Simon Brooks Copy Share Image
I see myself as a different sort of Welsh. Because we are from Cardiff, we see Wales as Cardiff. This is Wales;… — Craig Bellamy Copy Share Image
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Some accents people - internationally - can't understand, also they come with baggage. London means a certain thing, Liverpool means a certain… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
We're both Welshmen and growing up, when Howard Marks was finally caught, it was all over the news. He did an interview… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks that wind factories are environmentally friendly should Google "Cefn Croes Photo Gallery", to see 100 chilling pictures showing how… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
There are four of us, and we were all born in different cities because my dad worked all around the place. We… — Gwilym Lee Copy Share Image
Why? I mean, why you? I can perfectly comprehend not liking my husband. I dislike him intensely most of the time.” Professor… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
His mother had told him that when you looked into the eyes of God at the pearly gates, all the questions you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty… — Bryn Terfel Copy Share Image
My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story and was given slightly to malapropisms.… — David Jason Copy Share Image
“From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I'm blessed to still live in Wales. We have the beaches, the mountains, the food, the people of course. We have a… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
Welsh voices and Welsh communities were heard in 2016 in their tens of thousands, in their droves. They voted to leave the… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language… — Gruff Rhys Copy Share Image
Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
