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Portal:Wales/Selected quote/1
There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.
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Lloyd George, David (1933). "XXIV: Disintegration of the Liberal Party". War Memoirs. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson. p. 740.
Portal:Wales/Selected quote/2
Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand.
—
Neil Kinnock, speech at the Welsh Labour Party conference, Llandudno, 15 May 1987.
Portal:Wales/Selected quote/4
The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.
—
Roald Dahl, speaking during the mid 1950s
Portal:Wales/Selected quote/6
The main difference between playing league and union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday.
—
Tom David, former Welsh rugby union international, after switching codes.
Portal:Wales/Selected quote/9
All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter?I spoke a tongue that was passed onTo me in the place I happened to be,A place huddled between grey wallsOf cloud for at least half the year.
—
R. S. Thomas, Tares (1961)
Portal:Wales/Selected quote/11
I used to say that I spent half my life breaking bones on the rugby field, then the other half putting them back together in the operating theatre.
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J. P. R. Williams, JPR Given The Breaks – My Life In Rugby (2007).
Portal:Wales/Selected quote/12
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
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Aneurin Bevan, speech at Blackpool, 24 May 1945.
Portal:Wales/Selected quote/15
For me real peace is lying on a river bank in summer with a sprig of grass in my mouth. I have friends who jet off to a luxury hotel. I think, 'How can you enjoy such ghastly luxury?'
—
Griff Rhys Jones, quoted by Michael Odell in
The Guardian, 5 November 2006.
Portal:Wales/Selected quote/16
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
—
Dylan Thomas,
Under Milk Wood (1954)