Galway City Quotes & Sayings

A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained. — Binnie Kirshenbaum

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community. — Mary Travers

I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city. — Ken Bruen

Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope. — Condoleezza Rice

REGINALD BURNABY THE GREAT (variously identified as a defrocked Roman Catholic priest from Galway, an ex-convict from Liverpool, if not an escaped convict from that seaport city) — Joyce Carol Oates

LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ... the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species. — Ambrose Bierce

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. — Nadine Gordimer