Quotes About Robert Emmet

#1. Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

William Butler Yeats

#2. The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

Tom Clancy

#3. It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.

Apuleius

#4. Let no man write my epitaph ... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.

Robert Emmet

#5. I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Robert Emmet

#6. The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.

Albert Schweitzer

#7. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

Robert Emmet

#8. A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.

Janet Weiss

#9. Should I eat this or should I eat this? Well, I'll have to eat both!

Lewis Black

#10. Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.

Robert Emmet

#11. Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

Robert Emmet

#12. Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

Robert Emmet

#13. You can reach, but you cannot touch. It's reflected in your eye, but the message is never conveyed. It is something you decided for yourself, but that does not change the pain you feel. Even so ... you must protect what you must protect.

CLAMP

#14. I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

Willie Aames

#15. You just threatened them with a gun. I think I just threatened them with a gun. We got the money back. They actually returned it.' She took another shaky step. 'I feel so ... vibrant.'
His eyes were cynical. 'Delayed emotion. Don't do anything stupid because of it.

Anne Mallory

#16. God will come into your plans. But the choice is yours whether you allow Him to begin it, or force Him to end it.

Roberts Liardon

#17. You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

Francis Ford Coppola

#18. I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

Bruce Dickinson

#19. We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him.

John Owen

#20. Loneliness is sometimes cured by visiting with people, and sometimes it's made worse by the same thing.

Helen Humphreys