Top 14 Padraic Colum Quotes
#2. I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
Michael Buble
#3. Nothing is sadder than a child burdened by reality, after all. Those stories were our family fairy tales.
Veronica Montes
#5. He was Loki, a being who only half belonged to the Gods; his father was the Wind Giant.
Padraic Colum
#6. Remember thee!
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe.
William Shakespeare
#7. All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.
Winston Churchill
#8. To Meath of the pastures,
From wet hills by the sea,
Through Leitrim and Longford,
Go my cattle and me.
Padraic Colum
#9. I would change the knowledge I have into wisdom, so that the things that are to happen will be changed into the best that may be.
Padraic Colum
#10. Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Peter Medawar
#11. It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
Padraic Colum
#12. O farmer, strong farmer!
You can spend at the fair,
But your face you must turn
To your crops and your care
Padraic Colum
#13. Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task.
William Hazlitt
#14. My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.
Padraic Colum
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