Richard Brake Quotes

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

I'm a proud Welshman.

John Hartson, he speaks fluent Welsh and has the tattoos all over him to prove his Welshness. But in my own world, no one is more Welsh than myself.

I'm a Welshman through and through.

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

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

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?

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.

I'll move back to Wales if and when I have children. I want them to speak the language I speak, but I love living in London. It's my favourite city in the whole world. I love it because it's not England, it's London.

I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.

My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too.

I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Welsh people are loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls.

My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents living in Scotland.

I feel very fortunate that I was raised in a multicultural family, and it came through food.

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.

I've always felt very proud of Wales and being Welsh. People are a bit surprised when I say I'm Welsh. I was born in Wales, went to school in Wales and my mother was Welsh. I'm Welsh. It's my place of birth, my country.

The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.

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

My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

I'm Cuban. My parents are immigrants.

We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.