Top 34 Hackney's Quotes
#1. Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced - an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced to 6 million in 1851. At least 1 million of those people had died. The rest fled the country, hoping for a new life in another land.
Ryan Hackney
#2. I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
P. J. O'Rourke
#3. It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. If
Ryan Hackney
#5. Leave the table hungry. Leave the bed sleepy. Leave the table thirsty. Here
Ryan Hackney
#6. The Irish mingled their Christianity with folk beliefs in fairies and changelings.
Ryan Hackney
#7. Most of the first voluntary Irish immigrants came from Ulster in the north of Ireland. These immigrants were generally, although not exclusively, Protestants. They were known as "Scotch-Irish" or "Scots Irish,
Ryan Hackney
#8. Cholera was always a problem in unsanitary, crowded conditions; it broke out in workhouses throughout the famine years. When
Ryan Hackney
#9. I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
Iain Sinclair
#10. I am, and always will be, proud to be a Hackney girl.
Leona Lewis
#12. A man must serve his time to every trade,
Save censure-critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote
With just enough learning to misquote ...
Lord Byron
#13. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
Alexander Pope
#14. My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
Diane Abbott
#15. Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
Iain Sinclair
#16. Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.
Lily James
#17. Vowels Irish marks long vowels with an accent; short vowels have no accent. Here are the main vowel sounds:
Ryan Hackney
#18. No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
Karl Barth
#19. Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
Warren Spector
#20. I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.
Asif Kapadia
#21. Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London
Meg Hillier
#22. I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.
Gerhard Richter
#23. I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.
Rupert Murdoch
#24. Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
Ashley Judd
#25. To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).
George Herbert
#26. And if you can't go to heaven, May you at least die in Ireland.
Ryan Hackney
#27. Interestingly, some of the worst anti-Irish discrimination came from the Scotch-Irish, who wanted to make clear that they were a different group from the impoverished newcomers.
Ryan Hackney
#28. People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.
Lynn Margulis
#29. You can't swing a cat in Ireland without hitting a saint.
Ryan Hackney
#30. The first volume of Irish folktales was Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, published in 1825 by Thomas Croker from Cork.
Ryan Hackney
#31. The malnourished Irish were very vulnerable to diseases. In fact, more people died from illness than from actual starvation. Typhus
Ryan Hackney
#32. I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
Studs Terkel
#33. Potatoes came to Europe from the New World in the early sixteenth century. Sir Francis Drake is thought to have introduced the potato to England, and shortly afterward Sir Walter Raleigh tried planting them on his Irish estates. When
Ryan Hackney
#34. Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.
Sharon Horgan
