Sandymount Strand Quotes

#1. The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.

Seamus Heaney

#2. Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

Eric Liu

#3. Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

Saul Bellow

#4. Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. Just because you're my Princess doesn't mean I won't fuck you like a slut.

Ella Dominguez

#6. You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

Christopher Meloni

#7. My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.

Jimmy Durante

#8. When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.

Courtney Barnett

#9. To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

Hermann Hesse

#10. I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity ... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

Paul McCartney

#11. I know love is worth the time it takes to find. Think of that when all the world seems made of walk up rooms and hands in empty pockets

Gerry Spence

#12. I can write, because writing - unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms - is a thing you can do when you're lonely and poor, and have no infrastructure, i.e., a ballet troupe or some cannons.

Caitlin Moran

#13. My mom says Ingrid's name and I start to hum, not the melody to a song, just one drawn-out note. I know it makes me seem crazy, I know it won't make anything change, but it's better than crying, it's better than screaming, it's better than listening to what they're telling me.

Nina LaCour

#14. She was innately suspicious of language because she could "hear" with remarkable accuracy what lay behind it, and also she just didn't know how to talk very well.

Anne Rice

#15. Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Douglas Coupland

#16. Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.

Pio Of Pietrelcina