Padraic Quotes

#1. To Meath of the pastures,
From wet hills by the sea,
Through Leitrim and Longford,
Go my cattle and me.

Padraic Colum

#2. 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

#3. O farmer, strong farmer!
You can spend at the fair,
But your face you must turn
To your crops and your care

Padraic Colum

#4. 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

#5. I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. Hope could betray you - but if you had no hope, life could actually
surprise you in the best of ways.

Amy Lane

#8. It seems important to them that he is a kind of villain in their stories. This seems American.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#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. I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

George Clooney

#11. I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

Virginia Wade

#12. He was Loki, a being who only half belonged to the Gods; his father was the Wind Giant.

Padraic Colum

#13. Write what you want, everything else is gravy

Padraic Gyatt

#14. O woman shapely as a swan.

Padraic Colum

#15. To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

Paul Stanley

#16. The simplifications of hatred and prejudice, which embitter and perpetuate the Algerian conflict, must be combated on a daily basis, and one man cannot do the job alone. What is required is a movement, a supportive press, and constant action.

Albert Camus

#17. Rumours are like sexually transmitted diseases, both are spread by whores.

Habeeb Akande

#18. Life is like a good book... some chapters engaging, some funny, some sad and some challenging...However, its all left to the design of fate in which order they are arranged...

Nirmala Kasinathan