Douglas Hyde Quotes

#1. I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

Joseph Gatt

#2. Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Douglas Hyde

#3. By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate nationality ... the notes of nationality, our language and customs.

Douglas Hyde

#4. They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.

Francis Quarles

#5. Thank you for reminding me that the future is in God's hands.'" "'You're welcome. And remember, wherever you go, in body and mind, you simply need to call out to God and He is there

Tricia Goyer

#6. I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

Pope Francis

#7. When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

Brian Cox

#8. It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Douglas Hyde

#9. The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.

Douglas Hyde

#10. The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

Norman Vincent Peale

#11. As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

Douglas Hyde

#12. I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

David Cross

#13. I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

Douglas Hyde

#14. Helping others without any expectation and without gain is just as much a gift to yourself as it is to the person you give to.

Kat Von D.

#15. I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

Douglas Hyde

#16. Anyone who can go through Hyde Park on a summer's evening and not feel moved by it is probably going through in an ambulance with the sheet pulled over their face.

Douglas Adams