P H Pearse Quotes & Sayings

Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive. — James Pearse Connelly

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion. — Patrick Pearse

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them! — Padraig Pearse

My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they love the space, everything's possible. — James Pearse Connelly

A little girl learns about men through her Father. Sam Cameron — Lesley Pearse

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real. — James Pearse Connelly

No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us — Patrick Pearse

You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it. — Lesley Pearse

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this. — Patrick Pearse

The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life
In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things,
To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.
Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true? — Padraig Pearse

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession ... to create a living religion in landscape painting. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do." With theater, really, I'd be around the gays. — James Pearse Connelly

The word "budget" is the idea-killer. It slaughters any idea. — James Pearse Connelly

I knew one boy who passed through several schools a dunce and a laughing-stock; the National Board and the Intermediate Board had sat in judgment upon him and had damned him as a failure before men and angels. Yet a friend and fellow-worker of mine discovered that he was gifted with a wondrous sympathy for nature, that he loved and understood the ways of plants, that he had a strange minuteness and subtlety of observation - that, in short, he was the sort of boy likely to become an accomplished botanist. — Padraic Pearse

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. — Patrick Pearse

Charity couldn't meet her mother's eyes. — Lesley Pearse

I'm being totally honest, but I really do get chills every time I see something that I designed, painted on the biggest stage in Universal, standing proud there among all the other stages. I think, "That is so amazing that I did this." — James Pearse Connelly

Brenda had been the landlady of the Pied Horse for twenty years and, as Jack, the village grocer, came in every single day, she knew just how cantankerous, stubborn and mean-spirited he could be. It was a common knowledge that his older daughter, Emily, had left home after a beating and had never been home since. His wife, Mary, was a sweet-natured woman who was well liked by everyone, but she was a bag of nerves and too weak to stand up to such a bully. — Lesley Pearse

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things. — James Pearse Connelly

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life. — James Pearse Connelly

I was too stubborn to really take on what she was saying. But we're all guilty sometimes of only listening to what we want to hear. — Lesley Pearse

O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance ... — Christopher Pearse Cranch

If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed. — Padraig Pearse

Beautiful and rare Aurora,
In the heavens thou art their Flora — Christopher Pearse Cranch

got very nasty.' 'People mean well, but they can be so tactless sometimes,' Doreen — Lesley Pearse

I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done. — James Pearse Connelly

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age. — Lesley Pearse