Welsh History Quotes

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

I started doing some more specific research on Wales in that period because I like the idea of being authentic to the territory, and with that came the knowledge that there was this great rebellion that was happening with the Marcher barons and conflict with the king. A lot of it wasn't documented by the English.

I'm a proud Welshman.

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

Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there.

The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?

Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.

I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original possessors of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains.