Mary Mcaleese Quotes

#1. Life is not about destination, it is a journey of creation.

Debasish Mridha

#2. The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.

Mary McAleese

#3. The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

Mary McAleese

#4. Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.

Mary McAleese

#5. We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.

Mary McAleese

#6. Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

#7. [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

Tacitus

#8. The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

David Hilbert

#9. It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.

Mary McAleese

#10. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

Dalai Lama

#11. Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment.

Gary Chapman

#12. Writing is improvising sitting down. K.B.Brege

K.B. Brege

#13. The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

Saadi

#14. When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.

Raymond Depardon

#15. Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.

Mary McAleese

#16. That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.

Mary McAleese

#17. People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.

Mary McAleese

#18. People are leaving the church and going back to God.

Lenny Bruce