Comforting Irish Quotes & Sayings

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech. — Rebecca Solnit

Darwinism is not eugenics, but all eugenicists were devoted Darwinists, staring with Darwin's sons Leonard. — A.E. Samaan

Social media has a way of revealing someone and can be very telling. — Billy Kennedy

There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay," Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

It [World of Warcraft] is a touchstone. It has established standards, it's established how you play an MMO. Every MMO that comes out, I play and look at it. And if they break any of the WoW rules, in my book that's pretty dumb. — Greg Zeschuk

Even though we had such different families, Keri and I were a good pair, both freckled and Irish with a strong belief in justice. We would go out for recess and spend the whole time walking and talking. This is something I still love to do today. I call it "walking the beat." I often call my friends and tell them to meet me on a New York corner at a certain time. The physical act of walking combined with the opportunity to look out at the world while you are sharing your thoughts and feelings is very comforting to me. You are in charge of the route and the amount of eye contact. I guess those days with Keri were when this started. — Amy Poehler