Irish Oral Quotes & Sayings

Survival and sexuality were linked in ways I'd never appreciated until now. He — Deborah Harkness

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually. — Berkeley Breathed

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots. — Michelle Dockery

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system. — Steven Chu

If it's ALL about me, it's NOT about MUCH! — Bill Whittle

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless. — Bart Stupak

He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged for alms,has filled his heart with bitterness so that it resembles a sponge full of gall; he knows about the injustice and folly of all human action and sometimes his lips tremble with rage and a stifled scream. — Stefan Zweig

Douglas Hyde's Beside the Fire, William Butler Yeats's The Celtic Twilight, Lady Augusta Gregory's Visions and Beliefs of the West of Ireland, and Standish O'Grady's collections not only established Irish folklore as one of the great oral literature traditions of Western civilization, but also provided an immense source of pride for the growing Irish Nationalist movement. Even — Ryan Hackney

My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships. — Rebecca Walker

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories. — P.L. Travers