Irish Mothers Quotes & Sayings

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice. — Rick Warren

It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you've looked long neough, you realise the blank wastes of sand and rock are teemming with life. Just as you can keep looking at a person and suddenly realise that the way you see them has completely changed: from being a stranger, they've gradually revealed themselves as someone with a wealth of complexities and surprising subtleties that you're growing to love. — Annie Caulfield

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers. — Marianne Moore

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. — Bruce Sterling

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. — Michael Cunningham

There's only one thing on my mind. There's only one goal. One aim. One focus. — Triple H

There are many ways to scare people. Religion seems to be the best of these. — Art Hochberg

Booze makes brothers like no mothers ever do. — Killian McRae

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking — Joyce Grenfell

how
does this outer life, apocalypse
reported, penetrate my dreams — Ron Silliman

Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already. — Cesar Aira

Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing. — Bob Ross

All sorts of efforts were made to populate the Floridas - with anyone: Huguenots, Bermudians, Irish, Germans, Swiss, Scottish Highlanders, even some of the prostitutes being rehabilitated in London's Magdalen House. Sir Alexander Grant, who dreamed up the idea of transporting the prostitutes to Florida, confessed, with not exactly stunning insight, "Tis true they are not virgins"; nevertheless, he said, they would surely make splendid wives and mothers for such as were likely to live in a place like Florida.5 — Bernard Bailyn

At last, I came to the Lost Dog's Home which my map told me marked teh turnoff to Shelly Beach.
You could hear some of the dogs barking, calling out for their owners to come and get them away from there ...
I hated going to those places because I always wanted to take all the dogs home or let them go free, even though I knew most of them would go straight out and be hit by a car or starve to death. I sometimes wished I could have a place where I could take those dogs and let them live. The Phantom had this sanctuary called Eden and all the animals there lived together, even tigers and baby deer, because they'd never learned it's kill or be killed. The maneaters ate fish out of the lagoon and the island was protected by the Bandar poison pygmies and by the piranha fish in the lagoon. I would have liked there to be such a place for pets who had been dumped of abandoned. They could feed the owners to the piranha. — Isobelle Carmody

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages. — John Milton

You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them. — Guy Wilson