Ireland From Famous People Quotes & Sayings

TWO THINGS STRIKE every Irish person when he comes to America, Irish friends tell me: the vastness of the country, and the seemingly endless desire of its people to talk about their personal problems. Two things strike an American when he comes to Ireland: how small it is, and how tight-lipped. An Irish person with a personal problem takes it into a hole with him, like a squirrel with a nut before winter. He tortures himself and sometimes his loved ones, too. What he doesn't do, if he has suffered some reversal, is vent about it to the outside world. The famous Irish gift of gab is a cover for all the things they aren't telling you. — Michael Lewis

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well. — Caroline Gordon

When seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary Paul Le Jeune lectured a Montagnais Indian man about the dangers of the rampant infidelity he'd witnessed, Le Jeune received a lesson on proper parenthood in response. The missionary recalled, "I told him that it was not honorable for a woman to love any one else except her husband, and that this evil being among them, he himself was not sure that his son, who was there present, was his son. He replied, 'Thou hast no sense. You French people love only your own children; but we all love all the children of our tribe.'"5 — Christopher Ryan

When I wake up, my pillow's cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea. — Haruki Murakami

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. — Horace

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born. — David Cronenberg

You never know you're in a bubble until it pops. — Andrew Revkin

I don't think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don't think that's the story. We don't play this game to hurt one another. — Michael Vick

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers — Joyce Brothers

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous. — Van Morrison

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful. — Mother Teresa