Raftery's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.

Lady Gregory

#3. There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.

Lance Henriksen

#4. What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

Horace

#5. No matter where you go, no matter how far you run, you can't run away from yourself.

Eric Walters

#6. In other words, now that she had rid herself of falsehood, that young woman had only to be herself. Ah, but what is "herself"? I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know, I do not believe that you know.

Virginia Woolf

#7. What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

Emily Dickinson

#9. A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.

Gerald Raftery

#10. Time make everything easier to bear.

R.J. Palacio

#11. People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

Albert Bandura

#12. Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

Jack Lemmon

#13. A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

Jeff Koons

#14. How the hell would she support herself and her mother if Agua Dulce's new owner built one of those mega service stations right next door? Or worse yet, right on top of them.

Anna Jeffrey

#15. I've always thought young.

Bill Raftery

#16. Keep your head down. Mind your business and do the best job you can.

Bill Raftery

#17. People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

Martina Navratilova

#18. We do not act as your precious Christians do, slaughtering other Christians for believing the wrong way. Yes, we ask for payment. That is the price of safety. But we allow all people under our rule to believe what they will, so long as they do not disturb the peace.

Kiersten White

#19. I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.

Sienna Miller

#20. With a sweet kiss, off the glass ...

Bill Raftery