Standish O'grady Quotes & Sayings

i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires, barbed and barbarian, unfettered through the barriers that curtail the flows of life, poets pelting the halting barriers which strangle everyone everywhere. — Peter Standish Evans

Unless we encounter God, speculating about God becomes nothing more than abstract conjecture and theorizing that has little impact on daily life. — N Graham Standish

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science. — William Standish Knowles

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. — William Standish Knowles

I was particularly good at math and science. — William Standish Knowles

The Standish Group is an Information Technology organization that assesses risk, cost, return, and value of software projects. Since 1994, they have published the Chaos report that studies software failures and successes. The latest Chaos report recommends agile processes as one of the ten project success factors. (The Standish Group International Inc. 2012) — Gloria J. Miller

By this Yoshida explains that 'when we look at the actual conditions of this world through the camera's lens, we must deny the random movements of the human eye and restrain the eye's constant movements in order to focus on one point. — Isolde Standish

But I have said it, and will say it again. I, poor, penniless, plain simple fool that I am, have been ass enough to love you, Lady Laura Standish; and I brought you up here to-day to ask you to share with me - my nothingness. And this I have done on soil that is to be all your own. Tell me that you regard me as a conceited fool, - as a bewildered idiot. — Anthony Trollope

We never know where life is going to lead, Ethan. What so many small decisions are going to add up to. — Ali Standish

The idea of the camp was to use it as a staging area for soldiers on their way to liberate France. It was much better than putting them in Boston in case the Germans attacked. Allied soldiers from several countries left from Camp Myles Standish to go to England and then on to France. They would only stay for a week or two. One group would go out, and another group would come in. At that camp we were doing everything, all the maintenance. There was a small hospital with nurses and doctors, and we were busy. I worked in the PX. We sold coca-cola, and Narragansett beer was delivered once a month. Cigarettes were five dollars a carton. There was plenty of food. We were glad when they gave us American uniforms; that meant we were something. We had work, and we were doing something good. When Italy got out of the war, and we signed to cooperate, that felt pretty good. — Deborah L. Halliday

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford. — William Standish Knowles

Beloved mother and wife. Without you, all the light is gone. — Ali Standish

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. — William Standish Knowles

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. — William Standish Knowles

The modesty and diffidence that the penniless, unemployed Standish had brought aboard were now no longer to be seen; and the assurance of a monthly income and a settled position had developed a displeasing and often didactic loquacity. He was also, of course, incompetent. — Patrick O'Brian

There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination. — Sally Gardner

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet. — Myles Standish

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. — William Standish Knowles

At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years. — William Standish Knowles

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

Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.
But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.
So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears. — David Hume

My family gave me the best in education. — William Standish Knowles

I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires. — William Standish Knowles

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe. — William Standish Knowles

For my father
John Standish Fforde
1920-2000
Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless
and not a little surprised. — Jasper Fforde

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain. — William Standish Knowles

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school. — William Standish Knowles

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. — William Standish Knowles

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today? — Henry David Thoreau