Quotes About Irish Potato Famine

#1. The typical Irish peasant ate about 10 pounds of potatoes each day and soon towered in physical size over their rural English equivalents who mainly ate bread.

Rashers Tierney

#2. The true collector's only home is his own museum.

Orhan Pamuk

#3. ripped the paper

Leah Devlin

#4. I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'

Josh Homme

#5. I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

Lisa Bonet

#6. My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.

Stewart Lee

#7. Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was.

James Carriger Paine

#8. EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind and sky: All these are God's expression, art work of His hand, which men must love ere they can understand.

Richard Hovey

#9. My mother's a pretty warm, open person.

Adepero Oduye

#10. Would we believe their story; if the dead should return?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I will become my undoing if I become my obsession -excerpt from Abnegation manifesto

Veronica Roth

#12. The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.

Homaro Cantu

#13. Today's thoughts will define where you will be tomorrow.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.

Michael Dumontier

#15. It's often said that "the Irish built America. The truth is, not only did they build it, they also manufactured, repaired, and cleaned it, especially in the decades before and after the potato famine.

Rashers Tierney

#16. I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.

Garry Kasparov