Quotes About Patrick Pearse

#1. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally.

Patrick Pearse

#2. Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

Bob Balaban

#3. As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

Patrick Pearse

#4. If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

Muriel Barbery

#5. Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

Patrick Pearse

#6. There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Patrick Pearse

#7. We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

Patrick Pearse

#8. You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win by a better deed.

Patrick Pearse

#9. We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

Patrick Pearse

#10. Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us

Patrick Pearse

#11. Hundreds had come to the castle gates to bear witness to the burning of the Seven. The smell in the air was ugly. Even for soldiers, it was hard not to feel uneasy at such an affront to the gods most had worshiped all their lives.

George R R Martin

#12. Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.

Nadege Richards

#13. Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

Patrick Pearse

#14. I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

Maya Angelou