"We were a people, and are so yet. When we have finished quarrelling for crumbs Under the table, or gnawing the bones Of a dead culture, we will arise And greet each other in a new dawn." - R S Thomas

"We may write in English But our truth lays in Wales." - Manic Street Preachers

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George

"I carry Wales around inside me." - Tom Jones

"This is my truth, tell me yours'." - Aneurin Bevan

"You haven't heard the real beauty of the Bible until you have heard it in Welsh." - Richard Burton

"A nation is swiftly overcome if its spirit is weak; but with unyielding determination it can vanquish powers that appear to be utterly invincible." - Gwynfor Evans

"Wales defeated England in a fast and open game. We sang 'Delilah' and 'Cwm Rhondda', Duw they sounded just the same." - Max Boyce

"...of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more." - Catherine Zeta-Jones

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

"But I can't forget the times we had, The laughing midst the fear, 'Cos every time I cough I get A mining souvenir." - Max Boyce

"In the Bible, God made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights. That’s a pretty good summer for Wales. That’s a hosepipe ban waiting to happen. I was eight before I realised you could take a kagoule off ." - Rhod Gilbert

"The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart." - Anthony Hopkins

"I come from - I came from Wales. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves." - Anthony Hopkins

"I learned to talk in Kaarddiff, I talks Kaardiff OK! I learned it in a little school house At the bottom of Old Tiger Bay." - Frank Hennessy