Quotes About The 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. My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.

Brennan Manning

#3. Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment.

Carlos Wallace

#4. The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

Lydia M. Child

#5. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle.

#6. I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

#7. The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

Vince Staples

#8. Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule,

Agatha Christie

#10. 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