Meagher Quotes

#1. The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'

Ben Mendelsohn

#2. Massage is the study of anatomy in braille.

Jack Meagher

#3. Let us who hail from Ireland stand to the last by the stars and stripes!

Thomas Francis Meagher

#4. A Dreamer fails multiple times. A failure fails only once.

Manoj Arora

#5. I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people

Marge Piercy

#6. Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#7. 'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

Tom Wolfe

#8. Dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.

Maude Meagher

#9. All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.

Rob Thurman

#10. A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#11. Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!

Gerald Morris

#12. I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#13. Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.

Maude Meagher

#14. Anyone one loves is a potential enemy ...

Maude Meagher

#15. The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#16. The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#17. Happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

Maude Meagher

#18. Creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.

Maude Meagher

#19. But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#20. A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess

Thomas Francis Meagher

#21. Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.

Margaret Meagher

#22. Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Richard M. Nixon

#23. The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#24. Then a series of photos of her grandmother and her

Susan X. Meagher

#25. Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

Maude Meagher

#26. I have done what I felt to be my duty.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#27. The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#28. Fearless people are interesting to watch.

Ron Perlman

#29. God and heaven can't have you because you're mine and I loved you first.

Kerri Williams

#30. The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#31. It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

Thomas Francis Meagher