Top 68 Quotes About Galway
#1. REGINALD BURNABY THE GREAT (variously identified as a defrocked Roman Catholic priest from Galway, an ex-convict from Liverpool, if not an escaped convict from that seaport city)
Joyce Carol Oates
#2. I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.
Garry Hynes
#3. Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
Lady Gregory
#4. I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.
Michael D. Higgins
#5. I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We'd go for one day of the year during the summer, and I have enduring memories of the sand and the sea.
Philip Treacy
#6. This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing
to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over.
Galway Kinnell
#7. If it's well written, even an obscene book cannot be immoral.
John McGahern, Galway, October 6th 2003. Acclaimed as the most important Irish novellist since James Joyce.
John McGahern
#8. Each county has usually some family, or personage, supposed to have been favoured or plagued, especially by the phantoms, as the Hackets of Castle Hacket, Galway, who had for their ancestor a fairy, or John-o'-Daly of Lisadell, Sligo, who wrote Eilleen Aroon,
W.B.Yeats
#9. When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
Lady Gregory
#10. Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.
Ken Bruen
#11. I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am.
Michael D. Higgins
#12. Thousands of snapshots are taken of JFK that day. Many of them remain hanging in the pubs and homes of Galway.
Bill O'Reilly
#13. I've always liked that Galway Kinnell poem. 'Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven't they carried you everywhere, up to now?'" She had a fine voice for reciting poetry, deep-timbered and slow. "Doesn't that just make everything better?
Brittany Cavallaro
#14. Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.
Rhian J. Martin
#15. I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.
Ken Bruen
#16. By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.
James Galway
#18. That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Galway Kinnell
#19. I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
James Galway
#20. They're just treats. Like Cookie Monster says, 'Cookies are a sometimes food.' Sometimes doesn't mean never." "You're quoting Cookie Monster?" Bev stared at him. "Somebody has to.
Gretchen Galway
#21. Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.
James Galway
#22. Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.
Galway Kinnell
#23. How many nights must it take
one such as me to learn
that we aren't, after all, made
from that bird that flies out of its ashes,
that for us
as we go up in flames, our one work
is
to open ourselves, to be
the flames?
Galway Kinnell
#24. Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.
James Galway
#26. Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
James Galway
#27. The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.
James Galway
#30. The first step in the journey is to lose your way.
Galway Kinnell
#32. maybe there is no sublime; only the shining of the amnion's tatters.
Galway Kinnell
#33. When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn't
know which way any of them will go.
Galway Kinnell
#34. The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.
James Galway
#35. For here, the moment all the spaces along the road between here and there - which the young know are infinite and all others know are not - get used up, that's it.
Galway Kinnell
#36. I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.
James Galway
#37. I start off but I don't know where I'm going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead end, this is a dead end, and so on. The search takes a long time and I have to back-track often.
Galway Kinnell
#38. Kiss the mouth
which tells you,
here,
here is the world.
This mouth. This laughter.
These temple bones.
Galway Kinnell
#40. I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.
James Galway
#41. It was more or less late afternoon
and I came over a hilltop
and smack in front of me was the sunset.
Galway Kinnell
#42. Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness
Galway Kinnell
#43. Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love
Galway Kinnell
#44. Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.
James Galway
#45. I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.
Galway Kinnell
#46. The secret title of every good poem might be 'Tenderness
Galway Kinnell
#47. Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight,
when I come back
we will go out together,
we will walk out together among,
the ten thousand things,
each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.
Galway Kinnell
#48. Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?
Galway Kinnell
#49. Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
James Galway
#50. You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.
James Galway
#51. The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower
Galway Kinnell
#52. This one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making,
sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,
this blessing love gives again into our arms.
Galway Kinnell
#53. I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
Galway Kinnell
#54. I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.
James Galway
#55. Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.
James Galway
#56. They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.
James Galway
#57. To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment
Galway Kinnell
#58. Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.
James Galway
#59. You live
under the Sign
of the Bear, who flounders through chaos
in his starry blubber:
poor fool,
poor forked branch
of applewood, you will feel all your bones break
over the holy waters you will never drink.
Galway Kinnell
#61. I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.
James Galway
#62. It is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing ...
Galway Kinnell
#63. What do they sing, the last birds
coasting down the twilight,
banking
across woods filled with darkness, their
frayed wings
curved on the world like a lover's arms
which form, night after night, in sleep,
an irremediable absence?
Galway Kinnell
#64. Turn on the dream you lived
through the unwavering gaze.
It is as you thought: the living burn.
In the floating days
may you discover grace.
Galway Kinnell
#66. Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.
Galway Kinnell
#67. I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.
James Galway
#68. Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep?
Galway Kinnell
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