Border Country Quotes

“But a father is more than a person, he’s in fact a society, the thing you grow up into.”
― Raymond Williams, Border Country

“That a life lasts longer than the actual body through which it moves.”
― Raymond Williams, Border Country

“When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.”
― Raymond Williams, Border Country

“He’s studying Wales,’ Eira said, ‘and he goes to London to do it.”
― Raymond Williams, Border Country

“When you’re young,’ Harry said, ‘you just see things. There’s nothing much to say about them. You don’t realize then all the life that’s gone into it.”
― Raymond Williams, Border Country

“There’s only one real politics, and that’s politics on a weekly wage. All the rest, well. We can all talk.”
― Raymond Williams, Border Country

“The chapels are for people to meet, and to talk to each other or sing together. Around them, as you know, moves almost the whole life of the village. That, really, is their religion.”
― Raymond Williams, Border Country

“The visitor sees beauty; the inhabitant a place where he works and has his friends.”
― Raymond Williams, Border Country

“For here was the station, by the asylum: both on the outskirts, where the Victorians thought they belonged.”
― Raymond Williams, Border Country

“You don’t speak to people in London, he remembered; in fact you don’t speak to people anywhere in England; there is plenty of time for that sort of thing on the appointed occasions –”
― Raymond Williams, Border Country