Quotes About Identity

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

Whether I'm playing or not I'm proud. I'm as proud to play for Wales as I am Man United, to be there at the club.

It's hard to put into words, really, how proud I am and great it is to represent Wales because, in cycling, it's a little-known country, so it's nice to put it on the map.

It's Northern Ireland, it's Ireland, it's Scotland, it's Wales, there's Scousers, Londoners, all behind me.

Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

I started singing because I come from Wales.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

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

Cornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands and always has stood apart from the rest of England, much, but in a less degree, as has Wales.

My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.

My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.

I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.

I'm married to a girl from Wales.

I wish Wales was more represented on the British stage, and I have missed that being in London.

I was born in London but brought up in Wales from the age of two.

It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.

I knew I wanted to play for Wales from an early age.

I'm a regular guy, got the same friends. I live in the same area of south Wales. That's who I am. I'm just a normal guy. I just fight.

People can be really famous in Wales for rugby, but outside of Wales nobody really has a clue who you are or what you've done.

There was never a question of who I was going to play for. The English showed a bit of interest, but I was born in Wales raised in Wales so there was never any doubt about that.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.